I’m getting a pretty good idea of how travelers to a foreign country must feel. People look at you a bit funny, and they tend to talk very slowly. I’ve found myself to be the foreigner when it comes to traveling to my son’s elementary school. I pretty much did the same thing when my…
Author: Mark
Pass the uhhhh . . . uhhhhh . . . whatever that is.
There are three things I’ve learned about cooking in my time as a single dad. First, ANY pizza is good at ANY time of ANY day! Second, to paraphrase cousin Eddie from National Lampoon’s Vacation, “I don’t know why they call it Hamburger Helper. It does just fine by itself.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkExpbnjsX8 And finally, no matter what…
That moment when . . .
I can still remember the moment well . . . Tracie, my wife, had passed away about two weeks before. It was a fall morning, and the last of the family members had just left about an hour before. It had been, to say the least, a trying previous 10 months. I now found myself…
Isn’t there an instruction book for this?
First, let me emphasize, I am not a parenting expert. This will become painfully obvious as you continue to read. This is about my adventures (or struggles, obstacles, daily dilemmas – you fill in the blank) of raising two kids as a single dad. The one thing I’ve noticed over the last 8-plus years as…
Holding together the jello 