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I spent the better part of the day yesterday in a hospital room. And, when I wasn’t in the room, the rest of the day was spent waiting to hear news about my 86…
I brought my son to work on Thursday last week. He was just with me for three hours--tops. I wasn't teaching that day, so we ran some errands around campus,…
On Saturday some new friends came over to hang out and dye Easter eggs with us. They have two daughters, one who is nearly three, and the other not quite six…
As dads and moms, we’re all familiar with the “parenting gods.” Cousins of the “golf gods,” who are constantly reminding golfers that any success they have on…
I thought I'd be too tapped out to write anything today--or anything in the slightest bit substantive, that is. This past week was a hectic, not-so-great week…
The first words anyone (other than my wife or kid) said to me today were, “Oh, did K-Man forget to wear his costume this morning?” The look on my face must…
Lately I seem to be experiencing lots of armchair wanderlust. I've been daydreaming about travel, about new places and old ones, too. I'd love to visit my…
We’re trying to teach K-Man to answer, “Two-and-a-half” to the all-too-frequent question (mostly from strangers) of, “How old is she?” (Yes, because he has…
Remember T.'s fish Spike? The one that died last week, only 48 hours after we'd first bought him? A mere 24 hours after that, while we were still in Maryland…
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