Saturday morning, Andrea and I sat on our front lawn, sipping coffee and watching an endless stream of cars squeeze through the main road into the center of the annual neighborhood yard sale. People from all walks of life and all nationalities were turning one person’s trash into another person’s […]
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 […]
I believe in moral absolutes. One death does not justify another. Ten deaths does not justify another. Three-thousand deaths does not justify one. As a Christian and a Catholic, I do not believe in taking a life for the sake of justice. There is no eye for an eye in […]
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 […]
As I have previously talked about in this blog, Benjamin has had some problems in school and with his teacher. One of the issues she has cited is a lack of focus on his part. The thing he has complained about the most is being bored. Of course, I have […]
Yesterday, I got a bunch of suite tickets for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies triple-A farm team, from my company and the boys were REALLY excited to go. However, they were seriously disappointed to see all the rain coming down as we were driving home from school before the […]
I use to enjoy travelling for work. Okay, I didn’t enjoy the actual travelling, but I liked going to different places. I think it might have been the change of pace from a normal week or maybe it was just the time alone, but once I would get checked into […]
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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