Quick Link: Baseball, Childhood Cancer, and a Family Comes Full Circle
Friday, March 15th, 2013 Posted in Around the Web, Family, New York Mets | No Comments »This is a story I've told before, 4-5 years back, but recently retold over at my other blog, 2 Guys Talking Mets Baseball. The name pretty much says it all. So I'll direct you to it. Right this way, people ---> Click ...
OVERHEARD: “Burrrrrp. Oh, yeah.”
Monday, February 18th, 2013 Posted in Family, Overheard | 1 Comment »That would be my daughter, Maggie, as she leaves the room. Like a jet plane with a trail of exhaust. The burp was bad enough. Well, I don't really think so. I sort of like that Maggie enjoys a good burp. She's ...
A Murder of Crows, Etc.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 Posted in Family, Interviews & Appreciations, Scary Tales | 2 Comments »In Book #3 of my SCARY STORIES Series -- launching this summer, so don't make any plans -- and I mean that, no plans whatsoever -- I featured a whole mess of crows in the story. You know, when it ...
OVERHEARD: “I guess science is my favorite class — I just wish it wasn’t so serious.”
Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Posted in Around the Web, Family, In the Classroom, Middle School Life | 3 Comments »Lisa had asked Maggie, grade 6, about her classes and received the above reply. Which at first struck me as a hilarious thing to say about science. It was like saying, I don't know, math should be funnier. Social studies, ...
JIMMY TIME! (And a Poem for Dad)
Monday, January 7th, 2013 Posted in Family, the writing process | 2 Comments »I don't write many poems these days -- and no one has complained about that. But lately I've been reading a lot of poetry. I've been drawn to plain-spoken poems of late, not the dense, compressed, intellectual type I used ...
Overheard: “Hey, Dad, when I’m 18, I want to get a tattoo of a cat on my stomach.” (Parenting a Middle Schooler, pt. 3)
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 Posted in Family, Middle School Life | 2 Comments »I am sitting in the living room in early evening, reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Maggie, my 6th-grader, is doing handstands not five feet away -- because that is what Maggie does these days, continual handstands. Every ...
In Praise of Farmers’ Markets
Friday, November 2nd, 2012 Posted in Current Events, Family, Readings | No Comments »It's that time of year when our local, weekly farmers' market moves indoors and, obviously, the product changes. These markets really are a summertime thing. I'll be sad to see the empty parking lot on Saturdays outside the middle school ...
Pull with All Your Strength & Might
Monday, October 29th, 2012 Posted in Family | No Comments »Just an aside, but: This was my wife, Lisa, Sunday afternoon. I was glad for my daughter to see it. Lisa is great &, over the years, we've saved a lot on towing costs. Carry on! #ilovestrongwomen
My Three Amigos
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 Posted in Family | No Comments »The diagonal one is Nick, home from college for Columbus Day weekend. Maggie in the middle, age 11, next to Gavin, age 13. I'm to the left, holding up my end of the bargain.
Overheard: “Dad, NOBODY goes to bathroom in school.” (Parenting a Middle Schooler: The Joyful Saga, pt. 2)
Sunday, September 30th, 2012 Posted in Family | 1 Comment »I work at home, so I'm aware when Gavin and Maggie return from middle school -- I can hear them scurrying to the bathrooms. It's a sprint. The quickest gets the bathroom off the main hallway, while the slower one ...