I hate riding the NYC subway. Not because I think it's a dirty, crime infested mess (it's not). I mainly hate it because you never know who you're going to see. Sure, there may be the occasional homeless person funking up the train. But I'm not talking about that guy - he doesn't bother me. [...]
Going to the dentist can be a harrowing experience for rational adults, so imagine what it could be like for a four year old. At the dentist's office kids find themselves face to face with big serious looking chairs, strange metal equipment that looks more like it should be in daddy's tool box, suction devices, [...]
A couple of years ago I had my first colonoscopy. No it's not typical for a guy in his mid-twenties to have the marginally annoying anal-probing procedure, but I did. There were two major reasons for me to get the ol' colon checked out: one was my family and the other was my family history. [...]
I thought about this post on the long drive home and stopped at 13 things because it's my wife's lucky number, and it was the one floor that was missing from the resort we stayed at. It's not a profound list, so don't get your hopes up. Let's go... 13. If you are offended by [...]
Five weeks ago I wrote a post about how my wife and I were being proactive in addressing our son's behavior problems in school. I mentioned how I would be leaving work early for four weeks until my wife started her new part time job. (The decision was made for her to go part time, [...]