Posts Tagged ‘children’

#012 — Random Acts of Giving

Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. I think that I may be getting old.  As evidence, I offer the fact that this past Father’s Day I received socks and a ties and I was happy about that.  A younger man might have wanted something more exciting like a 40” [...]

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#163 — Mile Marker Forty-Five

I’ve seen a disturbing number of significant family birthdays and anniversaries this year. My youngest son turned eighteen, my oldest son turned twenty-one, and I turned old. My wife, annoyingly, has remained as youthful and beautiful as ever. She claims this to be the result of clean living, a good attitude and just a tiny [...]

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#158 — Twenty (Thousand) Questions

Having children is like signing up for an eighteen-year stint on a quiz show. Day in and day out you’ll be peppered with rapid-fire questions the way shooting gallery ducks are pelted with BBs. Even before your children can speak, you know that they’re storing up questions so that their first complete sentence will be [...]

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