Splashback
Splashing back through time.
100 Mile Challenge: Miles 33.16-40.5 – Breaking 5 Miles
I ran five miles on Saturday, but didn’t have a chance to write because we went camping almost right after. I ran 2.33 miles today. That puts me at over […]
Spanish Summer Roadtrip: Alhambra, Tossa de Mar and Barcelona
Alhambra: Journey through a Complicated History When Andrea and I traveled to Spain last, we made a point to stay in Granada which was the heart of the Moorish Emirate […]
Christmas Magic
While I don’t remember who specifically told me, I remember other details around that moment so clearly, more than 30 years later. It’s odd that I can’t remember whether it was my mom or my older brother standing ahead of me and to the left as we came to the […]
No Socks, No Shoes, No Pants?
This afternoon, while on vacation on the Outer Banks, we decided to walk out to the point that is near the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. From where you park, the remote beach has to be at least a mile or two walk. While we walked, the boys played in the surf […]
Anguish and Pride on the Little League Field
I’ve had some tough times as a father in the seven plus years that I’ve been on this wild journey. There have been some emotional moments for so many different reasons. However, one of the most emotional moments happened for me this past Saturday on a baseball diamond. I am […]
Matthew Turns Five
Matthew entered our lives on a Friday, a day that began pretty normal. I dropped Ben off at daycare and then Andrea and I grabbed a healthy breakfast of bagels and donuts. Andrea was already scheduled for a C-section the following Tuesday even before we headed over to the doctors […]
Count Matthew
Lately, Matthew has been almost obsessed with numbers. It started soon after Christmas when he kept asking addition problems, like, “Daddy, what is 1 + 5?” Of course, however, it was Matthews and so it was more like, “Uhm, Daddddy, what is one-uh plus five-uh?” (We aren’t sure why, for […]
Little Brain Waking Up (or “Look at the Big Brain on Matthew”)
As I mentioned before, every year, while on vacation, the boys seem to hit new stages in development. I’ve also mentioned in the past that Matthew had been slow in his speech development and is very difficult to understand, at times. During this years vacation, it seems, Matthew has taken […]
Apparently, I Rock
As the dolphin boat made it’s way back to the dock this evening, the crew handed us a bunch of bread to feed the seagulls off the back of the boat. I decided to try to feed the birds by hand and held pieces of bread that the gulls came […]
It's The Papa 