Last Sunday, right around three in the afternoon, a wave of nausea hit me. I’ve been down with the flu ever since. My wife moved out to the couch and my father-in-law postponed his visit. I spent the week mostly in bed, with occasional sojourns out to the kitchen to listen to all the adventures […]
Read MoreToday’s Tale is in the Seminole Chronicle. Actually, I like their title better than mine… Click here to read it. Terms for Searchers: Gold Tooth, Pirate, Argh, Story
Read MoreAbout 16 years ago, I found myself saying “love you too” to the woman that would eventually become my wife. The problem with saying “I love you too” is that it sounds like an afterthought, like you didn’t think to say it first and now you’re trying to make up lost ground, trying to reassure […]
Read MoreToday’s Tale is in the Chronicle. Click here to read it. Terms for Searchers: Bus stop, trail, bicycle, biking, bah, wave, community, soccer
Read MoreBy now, you probably have discovered that I do a lot of improvisation. Sometimes it works out (like finger love). Other times, it doesn’t (see finger of doom). My most successful, I think, has been Air Five. In case you don’t remember Air Five, it’s a way of “high five”‘ing your child from a distance. […]
Read MoreJust got back from a camping trip where, among other things, we spent a couple days camping at Stone Mountain. The first morning, I cooked up a quick breakfast (camp eggs) and we set out to climb the mountain. The trail is not overly strenuous at its beginning, but it gets pretty steep. At the top, […]
Read MoreThe fireworks this past fourth of July were amazing. As usual, however, we managed to be one chair short. Now I understand that in most families, being short a chair doesn’t affect the dad. With us, however, I’m the one who ends up on the blanket. That may sound like I’m complaining, but I’m not. […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is in the Chronicle. Click here to read it! Terms for Searchers: Tonsils, Parade, Flag, Eclair.
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading for a while, you may remember the Finger of Doom. If not, here’s a quick refresher. In the beginning, the game was called Slow Poke. It was something I started, and it was a really bad idea. You can read about it here. Some time after that, the combination of Slow […]
Read MoreToday’s Tale is in the Chronicle. Click here to read it! Terms for Searchers: Racism, Martin Luther King, Davy Crockett, good guys, bad guys, shot
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