If We Don't Come Back, We're Good.
I hear these horror stories of good teens gone bad, of the hormones holding the house hostage, of the sunshine of your life raining on your parade, blah, blah, blah. Maybe it will happen to him, to us. Maybe not.
It's Not Personal. It's Springsteen.
If you’d been raised where I was, when I was, you’d understand. It’s not personal. It’s Springsteen.
The Loneliest Number Goes Back to School
There’s nothing about this in back-to-school guides: What happens when you only have 1 when you need 2? Case in point: At some point during a camping trip this past spring, my Boy Scout got hot. So, he unzipped the bottom part of the legs of his official Boy Scouts pants, thereby turning them into […]
Sick Day #2: Haagen Dazs and Speed Racer
When we grown-ups take “sick days,” all too often we spend them checking doing all the stuff we normally do, only more slowly and with wads of tissues in our pockets.
Are You Sicker than a 5th Grader?
I like to think that it’s because everyone decided to drive their kids to school this morning during the thunderstorm, but I know better. It’s because we’re all playing a new game: “Are You Sicker than a 5th Grader?”
