Parenting Blog
on January 22, 2019 at 8:00 am ×
This story is sponsored by Fracture. Yes, we were in Ireland and Norway and Italy and have retraced our dating steps on South Street in Philadelphia, but it’s the granular details, the moments in miniature from those days spent helplessly falling in love and later, traveling the world together, that […]
Writing
on February 26, 2017 at 10:24 am ×
Third floor mattress on the deck AOL dial tone beside the desk Flecks of life beneath bare feet Doughnut boxes and newsprint fingers Lyrics on the cracked white wall Flailing heart on a sleeve A gross misunderstanding of nostalgia Listening to her having sex downstairs With Aaron or Lance or […]
Marriage
on February 4, 2016 at 9:53 am ×
When a glass slips out of our hand as we pivot from counter top to table top, many feet above the heartless tile floor that’s having none of our split seconds prayers for relief, and shatters with the force of a thousand armies attacking in unison during a single solitary […]
Parenting Blog
on April 25, 2015 at 7:35 am ×
I guess it makes sense, but that doesn’t make it any less painful. I’m a writer now. That’s where life has taken me in the last half decade, and so it would figure that I’d need it all spelled out for me inside the college-ruled lines of a 12 page […]
Parenting Blog
on February 14, 2014 at 12:32 pm ×
When people get old, dear children, they may begin to accidentally omit key pieces of relevant data from their cherished anecdotes or they might embellish the fragments still somehow lodged into the crumbling passageways of their feeble minds. Or both, such as in this short story of the early days […]
Parenting Blog
on February 14, 2014 at 9:23 am ×
Maybe I’m struggling with my lapsed romantic side. Maybe I’m just a sucker for a sweet and simple public expression of one’s love. Either way, Jesse Hale’s Post-It Note Love Letter video to his wife Holly, part of the Give It 100 challenge, puts a smile on my face, well […]