Today’s Tale is in the Seminole Chronicle. Click here to read it! Keywords for Searchers: Animal Kingdom, Pocahontas, show, set up, shushed

I was driving the kids some place the other day, when they started talking about what they wanted to be when they grow up. It was the usual assortment of professions: truck driver, fireman, astronaut, architect, and so forth. After he said “astronaut,” however, C paused for a few moments and then asked “do you […]

Like most little guys, my two boys love to poke. They poke each other. They poke me. They even poke momma – when they can get away with it. About a year ago, I turned this love of poking to my advantage. We were riding in the car at the time and they were being […]

The other day I found myself sitting by the train table while N was playing with the trains. It was just the two of us, and he was alternating between playing trains and making me dinner. He loves to “cook” for me – laying out little plastic plates and describing what’s on each one. This time, […]

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been out with the kids and one of them has said something inappropriate about a stranger walking by. This is understandable but still awkward. When the kids see someone unusual, they want to tell me about it. Of course, few people like to have their unusualness pointed out. […]

My Father’s Day story from 2005 is still probably in the top 20 most popular tales I’ve written. This year’s Father’s Day effort is, rather tragically, quite different. At church this past Father’s Day, I was in charge of our two year old. I should probably stop calling him that. He’s going to be three […]

J has been working full-time this week, leaving me to watch the kiddos. After a couple days of trying to both watch the boys and work from home, I gave up on working from home. In fact, one day I took them to Animal Kingdom. Have you seen the acrobat show outside the Tuscer House […]

For the past few weeks, I’ve been going through a stretch of rather extended professional obligations. Despite my best efforts to do otherwise, I’ve ended up having to work on some weekends. I really hate that. One of those working Sundays, my loving wife and children surprised me with a quart of mint chocolate chip […]

One of the things that our 4 year old has been struggling with is people who are mean sometimes and nice sometimes. He understands that there are mean people, and he understands that there are nice people. Unfortunately, some of his “friends” at school are mean as often as they are nice. It really bothers […]

Some of you may remember the first story about N discussing “peanuts” with Nana. If not, be warned that this one is equally inappropriate for mixed company… Now that he’s almost three years old, his pronounciation has improved dramatically. Instead of saying “peanuts” for his privates, he says “peanus”. So when he walked up to […]