Earlier this year, my youngest daughter lost a good friend to leukemia.
Last night the bus she was riding in, on her way home from a marching band competition, crashed when the driver “passed out.” I put that in quotes, because those are my daughter’s words. I haven’t heard any official news as to what [...]

My 15-year old started driving this week. She is going to be the death of me. She has a tendency to drift to the right. I can handle that except when there’s a huge semi to her right and she has closed to twelve inches before she corrects herself.
Of course she thinks her dad is [...]

It’s been a great day for Dad. A friend of mine asked me today if I know who Wally Szczerbiak is. From the context of the conversation I assumed he was a basketball player, but couldn’t honestly answer yes, so he sent me some photos.

OK. So he’s a hot basketball player. For Boston should any [...]

My youngest is turning 12 in about 6 weeks. She has decided she wants to take up gymnastics. I have mixed feelings about this.
We have known she likely has natural ability as a gymnast almost since the day she was born. She is small, wiry, strong and high energy. She earned the nickname “rigorbaby” long [...]

My 11-year old was asking about web pages and how they work last night. “Why, do you want one of your own?”
“I don’t know. What is your web page address?”
“Ummmmm…it’s a secret.”
“Dad! What’s your web page address?”
“It’s a secret.”
“Why is it a secret?”
“Well, because I have something called a blog…”
“What’s that?”
“It’s like a journal.”
“Well, doesn’t [...]