A few months ago, I had what you might call a change in professional status. I work primarily out of my home office now. This has been quite an adjustment for everyone. The toughest challenge is maintaining the boundary: when I’m in my office upstairs, I’m “at work” and can’t be disturbed. My part of […]

We went out on a fishing trip during my wife’s family reunion in Texas this past weekend. It was a pretty big trip: four hours, sixty something people fishing, lots of fun. As we were leaving, the captain stood on the edge of the boat, thanking us for coming and shaking hands. He held out […]

Today’s Tale (actually Friday’s Tale) appears in the Seminole Chronicle.  Click here to read it! Keywords for searchers: fireworks, publix, banana nose, I’ve been asked why I post the link to the Chronicle articles here, instead of on the front page. The answer is that putting a stub here lets you make comments.

A couple of weeks before N’s 3rd birthday, I took him and his brother down to the Animal Kingdom for a day of fun. Actually, we hadn’t planned on going to the Animal Kingdom, but that’s another story. One of the best things about the Animal Kingdom is the Lion King show. It is easily […]

If I had been smart, I would have written down all the times I’ve heard one of the boys start a sentence with “when I’m a daddy…” Unfortunately, I haven’t been that smart. A few weeks back, however, C came up with this little conversation-stopper. We were eating dinner, and the boys have been trying […]

We have in our kitchen a little plastic kid’s table. We picked it up at a garage sale years ago, and the kids love using it. In fact, whenever we’re not eating as a family, that’s where they prefer to eat. This morning they were eating breakfast there while I cleaned up in the kitchen. […]

We took the boys to a local playground (Central Winds Park) this past Sunday. It was loads of fun. There’s a play structure there that is literally three stories tall. It has bridges, climbing walls, ladders, slides… pretty much everything. In fact, two of the slides start at the top of the three story tower […]

Our routine in the mornings has become pretty well established. The kids get up and run into our bedroom. If they get there early enough, they find me still there. If they don’t, I come down and say good morning. They always get there early enough. Once they arrive, we either snooze on the bed […]

For a while there, we had quite the tough time fighting a battle for honesty with our four year old. He discovered, as I suppose all kids his age do, that what he says doesn’t always have to match what actually happened. We did all sorts of things to drive the lesson home. I told him […]

A few years back, right around the time that C was turning 1, I started calling him “little guy.” I’m not really sure why. It just sort of became a nickname that I used for him. Then his little brother was born, and I found myself with two “little guy”s. That seemed like a bad […]