You took the boys fishing today, out in the aluminum boat with your dad. Same thing you did last year which means now you’re stuck. It’s a Father’s Day tradition and now you have to do it forever. Just like how I started doing this annual blog post full of you and now if I [...]
Free-range is a legitimate parenting style, right? I mean, I’m involved – but more as loose supervision and lively conversation than actual parenting. Oh, in fact! My parenting last week was almost exactly like being with my two favorite college roommates; they’d come in and I’d have the dining room table covered with my work, [...]
I’m sitting in an old chair, which I swear used to be more comfortable than this. I’m sitting here watching the dog walk around the living room and mess with different stuff that’s on the floor. Each time he picks something up he looks at me like yes? And most of the time I say [...]
It’s like one of those problem-solving matrix thingies from elementary school. Suzy in Oregon wanted two sets of 123 cards and one set of ABC cards. Penelope in North Carolina wanted a prime number poster. Horace the Elephant wanted a Newton’s Law poster. Suzy got one set of each, Penelope got a counting poster and [...]