I started crying at the breakfast table Sunday morning. Talking to the boys about September 11th on the tenth year anniversary of the attacks seemed like the right thing to do. But I was surprised to find myself get so emotional when describing it to them. Until this past year, we had intentionally not talked [...]
Two years ago today, MyBoys3 was born. Thank you to everyone who has taken a few moments to read my musings. I appreciate all the feedback and hope that the posts have brought a few smiles, one or two insightful moments and perhaps a laugh. It’s certainly proven to be a therapeutic diversion for me [...]
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My six-year-old is playing flag football this fall, and despite the misleading “flag” designation, the four nights a week two hour practices for the entire month of August have been pretty intense. Intense for both of us, since, as I tend to do, I’ve signed up to help coach as well. This is both of [...]
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In honor of today’s big achievement by Derek Jeter to become the first Yankee to reach 3,000 hits, I thought I’d repost this piece from 2009. ***** There is a line in one of my favorite movies, The Family Man, where Don Cheadle (playing a modern-day It’s a Wonderful Life angel) tells Nicholas Cage that [...]
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There is a moment, a few moments actually, when my computer does something magical. It’s while my laptop boots up, after I type my password in. Right about the time when I start to get annoyed at how long it’s taking, wondering if anything is really going on inside that plastic box. And then, suddenly, [...]
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Sometimes I read an old post from nearly two years ago, and it says exactly what I’m feeling tonight. This is one of them. Hope you enjoy as much as I did… I love, at night, to sometimes linger in a dark room, after everyone else has gone up to bed. Standing in a doorway, [...]
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Standing on the ladder and kissing my son goodnight in his top bunk and he whispers I love you before he drifts off to sleep Squeezing my son’s hand at the end of the driveway as the school bus approaches and he gives me a little wave from the window as it pulls away Dangling [...]
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I had a sump pump installed in my basement the other week, which had me thinking about plumbers and one of the early posts on MB3 from September 2009 that you might want to check out if you missed it the first time around… ***** $1.2 Million. That’s my rough estimate of how much it will [...]
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Wishing you and your family a very special Christmas. Here’s a reminder of why we’re celebrating in the first place…
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Outside the wind curls around the trees like a scarf on my neck The cold creeps across the fields and burrows into the ground I peer into the dark room, lit only by a few dying embers in the fireplace A flickering glow rises and falls in the coals shadows dance across the walls I [...]
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