Parenting 101: Cajoling and punishment
I suspect that civilization, as a whole, took a nosedive the very moment people started trying to reason with children. Children are, by nature,...
Raising children? You’re actually just in a holding pattern
The moment you have a baby, people who are "experts" in the care and handling of infants become utterly convinced that if not taught...
Vegetable murder and gardening mayhem
It is said that murderers often return to the scene of their crimes. This is utterly believable to me. I've been returning to the...
Go digital, but leave a paper trail
I am an ironic dinosaur, career-wise. I began my writing on the Internet when I discovered, quite by happy accident, that some kind souls...
You can’t pause and rewind life
If I had any doubt at all that modern life has made me soft and slack, all it took was my love affair with...
Hearts gone wild
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body....
A man, a barn, and a movie
Pretty much every crazy idea Mr. Wonderful and I have ever had probably started with a measuring tape.
One moment we are sitting around,...
We are frugal to a fault
If you spend your life trying to impress and keep up with everyone else, you are not living your own life -- you are...
One isn’t the loneliest number, but crazy sure is
I would like to state for the record that I am not now, nor have I ever been, even a little bit insane. At...
How do you spell p-r-e-t-e-e-n?
It's been a few years, but I'm fairly certain I taught my son to speak. I have a dim recollection of spending many happy...
