It was Harry Sparks who first told me the love between a father and mother was like a misshaped tree, and therefore different and better than all other love. Boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and...
The most recent of my daughter’s many career incarnations is an astronaut, courtesy of a thirty-second newscast of the most recent space shuttle launch that somehow made it onto our DVR. I would...
One day when my kids were much younger, I glanced in the rear-view mirror to see one of my daughters sucking in her cheeks. ...
I’ve been a father for eight years now, but it was only last weekend when I finally figured out what exactly being a father meant.
I was fuming. A 30-minute task was well into an hour-and-a-half, and I still hadn’t worked through all the piles. ...
One morning I spied my son sitting on one of the kitchen chairs, his toes easily touching the floor. I stopped and stared. Something about his posture and those long, lean legs …...
Blundering, bungling, fumbling... ...
Simplicity is not a new concept. Henry David Thoreau dreamed of keeping his accounts on his thumbnail. For centuries people have known that simple solutions are often the best solutions. What about...
Last week Rowan went for his pre-kindergarten check-up at the pediatrician. After he undressed and snapped himself into the soft, tiger-paw-print gown and been weighed and measured, the nurse...
