Jason’s going through a sweet phase where he likes to tell me I’m a great dad. I’m trying to enjoy it while it lasts, and bank up all this praise to get me through his teen years, when he’ll doubtless…
I was 15 years old when John Lennon was killed. At the time, I wasn’t at all into pop music; all the records in the house belonged to my parents, and they were all show tunes, folk or comedy albums,…
Jason and Scott are big superhero fans, which is perhaps not surprising when you consider how many comic books I have around the house. Lately they’ve taken to inventing their own heroes and drawing their adventures, much as I did…
That’s right, a whole two years have slipped by since Gracie made her debut in our lives, and if it seems impossible it’s only because the old saying is true: Time really does fly when you’re having fun. From Day…
As I write this from a hotel in Springfield, Illinois, the Morefield family is nearly two weeks into a summer vacation that’s taken us halfway across the country in the family mini-van. The impetus for this epic sojourn was a…
If you know me at all, you know I’m a big Paul McCartney fan. If you follow the news at all, you’ve probably noticed Sir Paul’s upset a lot of fans (mostly on the Right) with a remark he made…
The kids had a blast at Nags Head last week with Grandma and Grandpa, despite a lack of cooperation on the part of Mother Nature for the first three and a half days. Overcast skies, cold winds and even colder…
I’m way behind on this one, but what else is new? On April 24, we took the kids on a homeschooling field trip down to Fort Eustis to visit the fire station, and it turned out to be really cool. …
I always seem to start these posts off with a phrase like “impossible as it seems…” but doggone it, it really is hard to comprehend how your kids can go so quickly from tiny little newborns to…well, in Jason’s case,…
I was having a discussion with Jason the other night while he brushed his teeth and got ready for bed. He noted that the North and South Poles of Earth have actual magnetic properties. I mentioned that the Earth’s magnetic…
