On Thursday night I learned of the passing of two men that in both different and similar ways had influenced me when I was a teenager. One did it from afar and never knew of the impact he was having on a 13 year old, but probably understood the potential […]
Somehow, during dinner, we got into a conversation about how big each of us are. Matthew guessed that Andrea was as big as a teenager. Ben agreed and said, “Yeah, I think you are as big as a teenager.” Andrea smiled and was about to respond when Ben finished, “One […]
I’ve said it before…I love Christmas. It was always magical to me as a kid, but that magic was lost for a while. Now, as new magic is created through my children, I always think back to my own childhood (and after) memories. I wrote the below a few years […]
This past weekend was my 20th high school reunion, as well as Andrea and I’s 12th wedding anniversary. Needless to say, the weekend was dripping with sentimentality, nostalgia, flashbacks and, of course, alcohol. A lot of it (not the alcohol, thankfully) continues to stick with me. While the boys hung out […]
For nearly six years, Benjamin had been my little companion on commutes into and from work, everyday…Matthew for more than four years. I would always drop them off and pick them up from daycare everyday, which accounted for 30 minutes to an hour a day where we would talk about […]
I’ve talked about this here before, but it is the strangest things that bring me back to a time and place, and often, a random time and place. This week, it happened to me in an unusually strange place…Interstate 78 in New Jersey. When Andrea and I first moved to […]
I can’t believe that in the last three weeks I have posted only three times. That is definitely off my goal of posting three times a week and my average of twice a week that I had been at before May. I don’t even really have a good reason except that time […]
A lot of people, when they come back from California, come back with wine stuffed in their suitcase. When I came back from California, I came back with Chocodiles stuffed in my suitcase. For those of you wondering what a Chocodile is, think Twinkie covered in chocolate. When I was […]
Right now, Andrea and I are having such a difficult time with Benjamin’s kindergarten teacher and it is tempting to pull him out of his current school and put him in the new school that he’ll be attending, anyway, now, instead of next year. This not be the usual post […]
Last Friday, Benjamin walked into the office just as Andrea and I were watching video of the tsunami in Japan. “What are you watching,” he asked, his eyes glued to the screen…It was too late to turn it of. “Well, there was an earthquake in a country called Japan that […]
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