I Write. You Read.

Recently, Simon and I have hosted a picnic on Sesame Street, visited the moon, avoided an alligator that was slinking around the dark corners of the house and skidooed into Wacky Wild World to find the letters “H-O-M-E” — just like Joe and Blue — and played “scary lion” for a good fifteen minutes straight. [...]

Sometimes the less is said the better.

The longest journey begins with a single step. That’s paraphrased, not a direct quote, but it sums things up nicely. In case you haven’t noticed, this all looks different. I’ve moved to a new web host, and along the way decided to re-invent my presence on the web. No longer will I try to [...]

As the piles of small spiral notebooks filled with scribbles scattered around the house will confirm, our little boy loves to draw. Or write. Or whatever he thinks it is. The point is that his favorite activity is to make his mark in colored wax whenever he gets the chance. For all we could tell, [...]

Normally, when I get a call from home that begins with “Simon almost made me cry…,” I expect the worst. 99% of the time Simon is a really good kid; we can’t really complain. But that other 1% is enough to push us to the edge, and it can be especially hard on his mom, [...]

Yes, I know. More than a year without a single update. If I were in the military, I should think I’d be court martialed for abandoning my post. Thankfully, I’m not, so the worst I can suffer is the shame of failing to deliver on the implicit promise that I would keep the internets informed [...]

Imagine there is a crisis facing the earth that threatens to wipe out millions and millions of people unless something is done to stop it RIGHT NOW. Suppose the governments of the world are too mired in politics and the drowning weight of bureaucracy to discover, much less implement, an effective solution. Consider the idea [...]

The lead in this movie, Shia LeBouf, totally made me think of the kid from D.A.R.Y.L., who has mysteriously gone on to be a still photographer for Cold Mountain. Also, the kid who plays Zig Zag is the older brother of the guy who plays Zach Young on Despearate Housewives. I thought he looked familiar, and [...]

I was born a poor black child… Well, I wasn’t, but Steve Martin’s character in The Jerk was. Actually, he wasn’t either, he just thought he was. The world that surrounded him was all he knew, so that’s how he identified himself. I wasn’t steeped from birth in the teachings of Aristotle or the great [...]

I couldn’t possibly catalogue all of the “daddy moments” that Simon and I share. A “daddy moment” being a point in time when the full weight and fulfillment of fatherhood descends on me and I just “get” what this is all about. But last night we had one that I can’t help but write about. It [...]