It’s 2010 and everything feels so damn disposable. Traditions, however small, involving family and/or longtime close friends become more valuable. They’re critical to raising introspective kids with a sense of purpose and a scope beyond their immediate impulses and desires. That is what I jotted down while driving home from […]
12 years ago tonight a 20-year old redheaded gal and I, her elder by nearly 3 years, attended our company’s holiday party together at the Embassy Suites airport hotel in Philadelphia (glamorous, I know). She was involved with another, a rather pathetic fella who lived in her parent’s South Philly […]
An English Royal Wedding. It hasn’t happened in 3 decades, and when it does next summer, OWTK will be watching. Now, we remain firmly anti-reality TV/celebrity gawking, and the royal family in general continues to interest me not, but the Prince William nuptials will show my girls (all young girls, […]
The Mouse didn’t say a word. She didn’t need to. I saw the ‘you’re-a-loser-daddy’ look on her face as she gazed across the table at the 10″ tall foam witch complete with broomstick and cauldron. The PlayFoam witch maker gave me similar eyes as she planted her flag atop Awesome […]
I get 3 days each and every week to have the Mouse all to myself. We play, we read, we dress up, we cook & bake, we run errands, and we learn. More often than not, it’s fun. The other 2 days during the week, she goes to a preschool […]
Opening yourself up in confessionals and other kinds of personal, revelatory writing for the world to see and read. I don’t do it much around here, but this is what blogging started as, right? This is stuff from my past that even the Mrs. doesn’t know about. I don’t talk […]
Actual conversations between the Mouse and I, over the course of the prior 3 days: Mouse: “Daddy, do Kings pick apples?” Me: I dunno, honey, I guess they could if they wanted apples straight from an orchard. Why? Mouse: “Because if a King picked apples, that would be random.” …then, […]
Look, I don’t like any merger of sexuality and childhood but Sesame Street’s decision to pull the Katy Perry & Elmo “Hot & Cold” video (from the Sesame Street TV broadcast) reeks of overreaction – even if it is the right move. How could the folks behind The Street think […]
