I wasn’t supposed to be at the Mom 2.0 Summit this weekend in Atlanta. I was supposed to be studying veterans disability law with my bride in Normandy, France for the 60-year anniversary of the Americans’ storming the beach there during WWII. However, continuing legal education (CLE) courses in France […]
Know what the best part of Friday night was when you were a kid? This: Know what the best part of whenever-the-heck-I-want-it-to-be is? This: Because I don’t have to wait for Friday night any more. I can use our roku box and stream, via Amazon Prime, vintage “Dukes of Hazzard” […]
A few months ago, my friend Jody suggested that 4 of us who grew up together in Hendersonville, TN and all went to undergrad together at University of Alabama bring our families down to Tuscaloosa for the spring football game, affectionately abbreviated as “A-day.” I’ve known Jody since 1983, which […]
April 6 was my 5th soloversary, meaning it was the 5th anniversary of my leaving my job and starting my own firm. I’m not good at simple celebrations that last one day, so I didn’t have one. We drove to northern Alabama and left the 3 youngsters at my parents’ […]
Someone who works with Netflix reached out to me not long ago and asked if I wanted to join their “stream team,” which I likened to being on a “dream team,” because I excel at watching movies at home, given how much cheaper it is now that our resident sitter […]
My little brother and I were shooting baskets in the driveway on Sunday afternoon when the rust colored sedan with screws down the side slowly drove by our house–two days after it had pulled into our driveway after dark on Friday night. My dad was in the garage doing something […]
It had been dark at least an hour when the doorbell rang. I should have been asleep, but it was a Friday night, and Y107 was playing requests. My Sony jambox was just low enough that my parents couldn’t hear it over “Dallas,” and I had a blank cassette poised […]
A long time ago–in the mid 1980s–we’d sometimes walk far enough from our house that our parents could not see us. Sometimes, it’d be after dark, and we never had cell phones with us, because none of us knew what a cell phone was, but I think some of us […]
I’ve been writing since 1983 and blogging since 2006. I’ve written for a military blog, legal blog, and humor blog. I’ve yet to have a dad blog–a blog I define as one on which I can write things I wouldn’t mind my children reading one day. So this is it. […]