One of my best skills, at least up until I began to play music in third grade, was being able to unwrap presents and preview what I would be opening on Christmas morning.  I could usually accomplish this without anyone knowing.  Of course, ...

One of my best skills, at least up until I began to play music in third grade, was being able to unwrap presents and preview what I would be opening on Christmas morning.  I could usually accomplish this without anyone knowing.  Of course, ...

Here is my list of the Top Ten Miranda Pregnancy Quotes of the 1st Trimester. 10. “I don’t want to fall asleep on the couch again. I’ll just wake up and be depressed.” 9. “One thing about being pregnant is you get to know every bathroom.” 8. “Oh…I’m probably going to go ...

So…I just experienced what I’m going to call “FIRST FATHER FREAKOUT”.  Do you remember the movie SPEED with Keanu Reeves?  The part where Dennis Hopper, the bad guy, tells Keanu that his partner is dead…and then Keanu proceeds to go f***ing nuts on the bus? That’s me, except in my ...

5. Scraping paint off an old garage.  Erica came outside to help me avoid a $250 fine and 30 days in jail by getting the back of our garage scraped and painted.  It was some quality time together.  She works hard all day with the kids, and then gives up ...

Packing the movable feast.

Married ten years today! I knew it would happen, I just didn’t have a clue what would fill the time in between. I thought I would take a little time to lament the events of the past decade and guess on what’s coming.

Here is a little update on Olivia. On Sunday my wife was about 45 minutes out of town visiting her parents, in the evening. Probably around 5:00pm Olivia began to shake, then her arms and mouth turned purple. My wife thought she was choking but she was still breathing. Olivia ...

"We've come a long way through the good and bad. And it's so much more than what it seems Sometimes i take it for granted. I take it for granted. Which way will the wind blow? I don't know if you will ever know how much this m...

I’ve been reading this great book, a real-life love story called The Motion of the Ocean by Janna Cawrse. It’s the story of a now-married couple, the journey it took them to get there and the adventure of abandoning their lives for a 17,000 mile sail around the Pacific Ocean ...