This may not make any sense. This may be the worst thing I ever write on this blog. But, here goes: I’m writing to write. I’m writing because maybe something…
Life Things.
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There are things you worry about as a parent. Normal things. Broken bones. Broken hearts. Hurt feelings. It’s universal and it’s normal. Then there are the things that are bone…
The morning of 22 November 2013 was heavy. I woke up 46. It was the same age my Father was when he died. Today, 28 October 2014, marks the exact…
One of the great things about being a fan — of anything, I suppose, but for this it’s about sports — is the community of people that band together to…
I loved being a journalist — the researching, the interviewing, the crafting of a story. At my best, I was able to pull a reader into the experience… Maybe it…
In the penultimate episode of HBO’s series Treme, “Sunset on Louisianne,” the character Antoine Batiste careens around New Orleans desperately looking for places to play. He bounces from an all-night…
The Daughter’s Second Grade Teacher — who’s really really great — does this thing where she has a parent come in and read a story to the kids. It’s supposed…
[bra_dropcaps style=”dropcap1″]F[/bra_dropcaps]or some reason our Kids wanted to make lunch for us. I’m not sure what the Wife got, but I got a chocolate peanut butter sandwich and then a…
My Mom passed on 29 December 2013. Because our Family had been told she had two weeks to live seven other times, it came as a bit of a shock….