I’m in the midst of the most exciting period in a young child’s life. There’s this moment sandwiched between the whiny baby years and the growing maturity & burgeoning independence of the grade school years. I call it the Transformation. It’s the stage of a child’s life when they begin […]
My 2010 can easily be divided into 2 parts. There’s the 1st one, from 12/30/09 to early June 2010. I was eating right, exercising regularly, losing lbs at an amazing pace without any magic tricks or pills. I felt great. I felt like I had done it, kicked my bad […]
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 […]
The man’s music already altered my life once. It’d be greedy to expect it to do it again. I was 17 (half of my current age) when “Gentlemen” entered my life. I saw the video for “Debonair” once and that was enough to get The Afghan Whigs major label debut […]
