Yesterday when I went out to shoot some hoops with my six-year old, I noticed that our basketball hoop had been raised to the full ten feet. “Hey big guy,” I said. “Want me to lower it? That’s the height the pros use.” He looked at me, then the hoop, then threw the basketball in: […]

The kids and their mom went down to visit some friends at Disney yesterday. The friends were staying at a Disney hotel with what sounds like a fantastic pool. There’s some sort of volcano or mountain in the middle with a water slide twisting around it. My wife described it last night as a great […]

Our six-year-old’s big present last Christmas was a digital camera, and it was a big hit. He loved taking pictures. More than that, though, I think he loved having it. A camera, you see, is a grown-up thing. It’s not something little boys have, which proved, of course, that he was no longer a little […]

Prior to me biking our kindergartner into school, my morning duties included getting the kids dressed and getting them breakfast. Now, however, I have to leave earlier than my wife, which means she sometimes ends up on morning kid duty. Yesterday, as I took the dogs out for their morning constitutional, I noticed a showdown […]

Today’s Tale is in the Chronicle: Click here to read it Terms for searchers: God Bless America, church, Memorial Day, Veterans, Hamburger, sullen Backstory: This tale is actually a follow-up to a previous tale. You don’t have to read the old one, but you might want to. Click here for details!  

A few years back, the boys and I developed a tradition we call “Finger Love” (click here for more information). Despite a few weird setbacks, this tradition has persisted through the years. It’s been raining here for about a week, completely shutting down our morning routines of bicycling and exercise. Since the kids have been […]

Today’s Tale is in the Chronicle. You can find it here. Terms for Searchers: Ice Cream, Gelati, Jeremiah’s

We’ve been fighting the nose-picking battle with our four year old. It seems like every time I turn around, he’s fishing boogers out of his nose and eating them. We’ve tried to gently encourage him to stop, but yesterday it got the better of me. “That is so disgusting,” I said. “You’ve got to stop. […]

A week spent at home sick with my sick(er) six-year old was quite nice – assuming you could look past the phlegm and vomit and other assorted bodily nastiness. As we got healthy toward the end of the week, the big guy found himself with a lot of energy to burn off. Unfortunately, he chose […]

If you’ve been reading for a while, you may remember the Finger of Doom. If not, here’s a quick refresher. In the beginning, the game was called Slow Poke. It was something I started, and it was a really bad idea. You can read about it here. Some time after that, the combination of Slow […]