On family history

Do your kids like to hear stories about your parents, or your grand parents, or great-grand parents? Do they love to sit and hear about their first birthday, or their first steps, or the time they put a bug in their ear and went to the ER? Do you help them (older kids, that is) […]

Just in case

Perhaps I should clarify what I wrote here about me and my kids. I love my kids madly. Period. I apparently still have issues about not being able to create my own, and that’s something I’ll be dealing with for a while. That is separate from my kids, though. Crap, this is hard to put […]

Fathers Day

Hmmm.. well, Fathers Day is here. This is a strange day, for most of the last forty years or so I haven’t really paid much attention to it. This year it’s on my mind perhaps a little more than most for a couple of reasons. First, my wife’s dad is sick, really sick, and we […]