Wastin’ Away Without a Shaker of Salt
2013-10-15 – Does this happen to you? Probably not. But it happens to me all the time. I say probably not because people act as if it is strange […]
Tag Archives: Family
Hernia? Jesus!
2013-10-01 – Happy Diogenes Day! If you’ve been reading my blog recently, you know that today is the day for celebrating truth telling. But I’ve written enough on the subject […]
We Are Not at War
2013-09-01 – My mother is 85 years old. She lives 2,000 miles away in an assisted living home in Los Angeles. She is losing her memory. She sometimes gets disoriented. […]
Best Dog In the Whole Wide House
2013-08-22 – If Tuesday’s count-your-blessings post didn’t make you want to puke, I’m going to press forward with my new-found positivity. Today I’m going to talk about how much I […]
Eight Months Pregnant
2013-08-18 – Twenty years ago this month, my wife Kit and I took our 18-month old son Nat on a vacation to a cottage on a lake in Wisconsin. […]
Corporate Marriage
2013-06-30 – One of the first things that popped into my inbox after the Supreme Court decisions on gay marriage was a warning that polygamy could be legalized next. I’m […]
There’s an App for That
2013-06-21 – My wife must have an app to detect when I am in the bathroom. That’s when she calls me. And it’s not just any bathroom. She calls me […]
Aftermath’s Family
2013-04-24 – I’m interested in aftermaths. But they are a tense topic. I’ve got one aftermath in my novel Cain’s Mother-in-Law. So, in preparing for my search for a publisher, […]
Sexy Pink
2013-04-21 – We’re coming to the end of our home remodeling. I hope. Our house is built in the Chicago Georgian style. On the east side, running from front to […]
Death of a Child
2013-04-07 – To most people, especially parents, the death of a child is a secret, but ever-present dread. So when I saw the headline that Rick Warren’s 27-year old son […]
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