I picked up Josh from preschool this week and his teacher pulled me aside. She had a look in her eye that said there was an incident that she needed to explain to me. As a parent, your mind suddenly runs wild, speculating on what calamity may have occurred. I knew he hadn’t been seriously [...]
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Ka-Boom! Sizzle, sizzle, buzzzz. The night sky burst into colors that fanned out like willow trees and puffs of grey smoke billowed in the aftermath. I watched the lights twinkle behind the silhouette of my two oldest boys who’d climbed the low branches of a tree to get a better view. Our family was enjoying [...]
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$1.2 Million. That’s my rough estimate of how much it will cost my three boys to get through four years of college. You think I’m kidding, but I’m not. According to a recent New York Times article, some of today’s private colleges now cost in excess of $50,000 per year for tuition, room and board [...]
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I love, at night, to sometimes linger in a dark room, after everyone else has gone up to bed. Standing in a doorway, amongst the shadows in the quiet of our house, and look all around me.
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I knew something was wrong when I reached the top of the stairs and saw the bathtub faucet handle lying on the floor.
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My son started kindergarten today. He’s nearly six but as my wife has tried to explain to me several times, his November birthday just misses the cutoff. The cutoff has always proved something of a mystery to me, I’m not sure why. (I think it is a guy thing – MLB trade deadline, check, cutoff man, [...]
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Soon after Aaron was born in March, my wife was getting up several times a night for feedings. As she’d often go to bed early, I fell into the routine of staying up until around 11 and giving him a bottle before I went to bed. (This is kid #3 – I stopped staying up [...]
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6 hours and 37 minutes. That was how long my GPS was telling me our trip would take, but I knew it would more likely be 8 or 9 hours after stops and traffic and who knows what else. We were heading home last week, at the tail end of a weekend visit to my [...]
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The really tough parts of being a dad often catch you by surprise. Seemingly innocent things can turn terribly wrong. Take visiting a lighthouse for example…
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Aug 20, 2009 7:10pm reach High Point State Park, Sussex, NJ 7:11 saw porcupine walking down the road 7:15 arrive at campsite no. 15 7:16 immediately swarmed by Mosquitoes, run for cover of van and bug spray 7:18 survey campsite – realize it is 50% gravel, [...]
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