When Andrea and I went on our first date and had our first kiss, I was 21 years, 2 months and 26 days old. When February 11th of this year quietly arrived, so did 21 years, 2 months and 26 days since that first kiss. I have now spent half […]
This afternoon I went out on my lunch break to the Walmart to find some dry erase markers that are to be a part of a special Santa present to the boys. It was rainy and dreary and as I tried to navigate out of the difficult parking lot, a […]
Twenty years ago this weekend, I returned to York College of Pennsylvania following a few days home for fall break. It was a Tuesday, October 25. I went to my office at The Spartan, the college newspaper. I logged on to one of the computers and began chatting via Telnet […]
I wrote this at the start of my senior year in college for the college newspaper, in October 1994. After the long dark night, a faint glimmer of light appears low on the black horizon. A chorus of crickets is replaced by an orchestra of birds. They proclaim the birth […]
I wrote this as a column for my college newspaper during my Junior year…about 20 years ago. It was about walking in the woods behind my house in Hopatcong, NJ. I can only hope that Benjamin and Matthew will one day find such a place to learn and play together. […]
Below is the second of three “letters” I wrote to Benjamin in the month after we found out Andrea was pregnant. December 9, 2004 Dear Little One, Well, after a whole lotta tests, we are fairly certain you are on your way, and we couldn’t be any happier or excited…or […]
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 […]
Going through some old writing, I found three “letters” I had written right around the time we found out that Ben was on his way. Below is the first one from the night we found out that Andrea might be pregnant. You probably need to read this post to make […]
It seems like a mere week ago that it was just Andrea, our bulldog and myself sitting in a little house. I would spend time on the computer researching new daddy things like the best car seats and cribs and what diapers are best. It seems like just a few […]
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 […]
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