Weekenditis

It’s Friday, it’s less than a couple hours to quitting time, and I have the whole weekend ahead of me. Why am I not looking forward to it? At least one child has already asked to go to “gym-matchsticks” tonite; which is cool: it goes from 7 to 11:30, is cheap, and will let the […]

These middle aged blues

It’s Saturday night. It’s just after 10:00. My wife and kids are asleep (or almost so), taking up our entire bed with pillows and quilts and stuffed animals and feet and hands and stuff. I’m unable to sleep, so I thought “Hey, what a perfect chance to go catch a movie!” Now aside from the […]

That’s unpossible!

It showed all the signs of a date night. My wife e-mailed me this afternoon. Would I like dinner? And then the tantalizing hook – “I shaved my legs.” Oh my I just about, ahem, climaxed right then. But I’m a realist. It was only 4:00 in the afternoon. Things happen. We get the kids, […]