18,235 days. Give or take. Stupid leap years. Without a doubt, more than a handful of those days were turds marred by arguments not worthy of remembering. Today though, today is a no doubt, 24 carat solid gold day. ********** I cannot stress enough how all that I am, that […]
I am a fighter with my lover. And yes, if you are curious, my lover will punch me in the arm tonight for caller her “my lover.” If anger is a nail, I never shelve it. Instead I hammer the fucker home strong, proud, and true. Sometimes I whack my […]
My mom and dad have been married 49 years today. To each other! Their stability and love for each other and their 3 sons is a huge part of the reason I am so stable in life and in my own relationships. You can’t overstate the value of being raised […]
If you’re not already an avid consumer of The Moth podcast, I recommend you become one. The spoken word series offers a free weekly story that runs somewhere between 15-20 minutes long. They’re often funny and almost always interesting stories told by a myriad of known and unknown folks. For […]
More of me. My first post for the snazzy parenting website EverydayChildhood.com was published this morning. I’ll be manning the 1st Friday ship over there (each Friday features a post from a dude and I’m honored to be in the mix that includes Adam Cohen from DadaRocks and previously, Josh […]
The Bear has experienced 4 Newport Folk Fests in her 6+ years. Her fifth is going to have to wait until at least 2011. The Mrs. and I, thanks to my folks taking our girls for a long weekend, are flying up to Newport, RI sans children early this Saturday […]
One of my fondest memories of the past decade is being on the telephone with the woman who would eventually become The Mrs. In these memories we’re in our pre-kid/pre-marriage years, still in the figuring-it-out stage of a relationship. We knew it’d be us forever, but the course hadn’t totally […]
