Recently I attended a graduation for a small class of registered nurses. There were twenty graduates, sixty invited guests and two-thousand digital cameras. If sasquatch had shambled through the auditorium we’d have had definitive photographic evidence of his existence….along with his hair color (brown), eye color (brown), and shoe-size (fifty-one triple-wide). Each time a [...]

  I built my youngest son a new dresser this week. That would be a lot more impressive if the dresser hadn’t come from the local discount store in packaging that resembled an oversize pizza box. With a little luck and some caution, it won’t actually collapse and bury him in a flash-flood of rumpled [...]

  Earlier this week my car asked to be taken to the shop for repairs. A deep, distressed growl replaced the normal quiet hum of road noise. Either I’d developed a mechanical problem or a dyspeptic grizzly had taken up residence under the hood. Frankly, given the usual cost of a trip to my mechanic, [...]

  You’ll forgive me if I’m a little terse right now. I’m recovering from an attack of Irritable Dad Syndrome. Although you may not have heard of IDS before, it is a serious problem in this country. IDS afflicts virtually all fathers at some point. Fully half of the fathers in America suffer it at [...]