"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." — Groucho Marx
Dear Children, It is May 7, 2012. We’ll celebrate my 43rd birthday on Wednesday and I have to let you know that I haven’t made as much progress as I would have hoped or liked to. It is not quite like last year but it is not where I want it to be either. If… [Continue Reading]
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Eighty some pounds of 11 year-old boy scream at me. “You love basketball, dad. You do. Not me.” I look down and stare into his eyes. They are burning a hole in my head. I see fire. I… [Continue Reading]
There is a girl in this house that loves that song. It is one of hundreds that she likes to dance to or sing along with. If you spend any time here you have read some of the posts I have written about her. They have ranged from conversations about whether she could be on… [Continue Reading]
Sweep the leg is the sort of pop culture reference that makes my generation smile. The boys and I use it both in jest and without, but I never thought that it would be used at my daughter’s soccer game. That not just because the dark eyed beauty is 7.75 going on 30. It is because… [Continue Reading]
“Jack, you can’t send your children to public school. It is not like it was when we were kids. The schools were good then, but now they aren’t. They are scary places where gangs roam the halls, kids get high and there is sex in the bathrooms.” That is not an exact quote, but it… [Continue Reading]
The initial impact of the blow almost knocked me off of my feet but my size saved me from introducing my face to the floor. I am grateful for that because it would have hurt. He has been wrestling with me for his entire life and has never found a way to beat me. I… [Continue Reading]
It is Thursday night and I am finally back on the computer. We’re less than 24 hours away from the family dinner where we get to tell pharaoh to stick it. We built those pyramids and we are sending a bill for over due wages. That is a less than clever way to say that… [Continue Reading]
There were different words here. Just a few moments prior to the entrance of those that you read these spaces were occupied by others and then they weren’t. That is because the cyber field of dreams they wandered among was not populated by great big splashes of yellow sun flowers set against a bright blue… [Continue Reading]
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