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...
Advice on life and love from fourth graders
I'm just back from my foray into the fourth grade class Valentine's party. Pizza was eaten, votes were cast, alliances were made -- and...
Gullibility: Not-so-PC virus
Warning: Many Internet users are becoming infected by a virus that causes them to believe without question every groundless urban legend and dire warning...
I didn’t mean to kidnap the neighbor boy
So, I may have inadvertently kidnapped the neighbor boy.
Let me explain
As with most things in my life, there is a story here and...
New house people have problems, too
One of my many faults (and I surely have far too many to count in just one column) is I am a shallow person...
