I almost always enjoy getting to work. For one reason, I enjoy my job. But even more than that, by the time I get to work, I feel like my day is already made. I think a lot of parents probably feel that way. It’s sometimes so stressful to try to get everything done in…
Tag: humor
Of Peanut Butter and Taco Bell
I’ve been making school lunches for almost as long as I can remember. It goes waaaaay back. That’s because both of my kids are pretty much very picky eaters. I’ve never known this to be a problem for me, which is one reason why I’m always in need of losing about 10 pounds, but that’s…
DO . . . YOU . . . SPEAK . . . ENGLISH
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…
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…
Holding together the jello 