I was introduced to Pepto as a teen who’d consumed too much candy one Halloween. My mother produced it to silence my whining about frequent trips to the potty. When I asked what it was, she said, “It’s like concrete for your bottom.” I pictured my dad with a trowel […]
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A houseplant is dying. Tell it why it needs to live.
The next suggestion from the “642 things…” book (see title above): Hey. You in the green. Drink something. Stand up straight. Quit showing your roots. Have some self-respect. Listen to me for a minute. You’re privileged. You sit in a window near the back door, in a room full of […]
What can happen in a second?
A couple weeks ago, I was at a local store I like to endorse any time we need something framed called Binders. The children were with us and were picking out items to break, take, or insist that we buy for them. Among them was the 9-year-old’s choice of a […]
today I learned Care Bears have cousins
Apparently, I should have learned this in the ’80s, but I was busy watching the Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider back then, so I never noticed. So, how did I learn about Care Bears’ cousins? We got a box in the mail from Netflix that was addressed to me, […]
a weekend in Vieques, Puerto Rico
When we got hitched 10 years ago, my bride gave me a copy of a book entitled “1000 Places to See Before You Die” with a nice inscription in the front that referenced wanting to visit a bunch of them together. So, any time I know I’m going to a […]
the annual trip to Saint Simons Island
For the 4th consecutive year, I took the family with me for my annual workers’ comp law seminar at Saint Simons Island in southeast Georgia (I’ve gone every year since starting in 2004, save 2007, when I was in Iraq). This year was a bit different in that I had […]
Halloween 2015
For this year’s Halloween costume, we traveled to Hill Valley, California in November 1955.
my kids’ interpretation of the “Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show”
Apparently, there’s a show on Netflix that involves a really smart dog who invents things and once adopted a boy named Sherman, and now they have a show together that involves interviewing persons who’ve traveled through time in a “waybac” machine the dog invented. My children like it, so when […]
“Tina Turner got it wrong” – Optimus Prime (and that dude getting eaten by a T-Rex)
When my boy turned 7 a month ago, the only toy he requested was “Rescue Bots,” and he specifically wanted an Optimus Prime. Lucky for him, the Birthday Fairy brought him just that, and after some assembly, all was right with the world (the Grandparent Fairies gave him Legos, but […]
4 days with 3 children in Chicago
The impetus for a trip to Chicago was the National Organization of Veterans Advocates semi-annual conference, but really I wanted to bring my family to see one of my favorite cities and to return to where my bride and I went more than ten years ago to my friend Jesse’s […]