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 […]
Officially, I have broken my pledge to post at least one blog entry a week. It took nearly half the year before I slipped, but I did none-the-less. So, I’ll make up for it over the next couple of weeks. June was a weird month, to say the least. From […]
A couple of weeks ago, Andrea finished making dinner and sat down with the boys to eat. Benjamin looked at his food and said, “Is this what we are having?” with displeasure in his voice. We, like many, many parents around the world, had been having a particular hard time […]
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 […]
With Ben’s last report card, we made a deal with him. We told him that if he improved his scores in a couple of areas (listening, being neat, coloring inside the lines, etc) we would bring him to Dorney Park soon after school ended. Apparently, at the time we made […]
The boys have nearly the whole collection of plush Angry Birds, with the only one missing being the green one. At some point, we discovered that in June, some more Angry Bird products would be released. All facts that are basically irrelevant to this story, because, like many of our […]
On the way home from school, Benjamin asked me a complicated question that, on first pondering, didn’t make a whole lot of sense. So, I spent a moment trying to figure it out and noticed that Benjamin was oddly silent. He usually isn’t patient for answers and will keep repeating […]
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 […]
I think I have mentioned this before, but Benjamin has a habit of trying to tell Matthew what to do or lecturing him. The other night, before Andrea got home from work, I was telling Matthew not to do something. Benjamin, not wanting to miss the opportunity, started to lecture […]
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