For the last couple of weeks I had to steady myself everytime the phone rang revealing my mother's cell phone number on the caller ID. Somehow I knew that when the news came it would be my mom who'd break it to me. That call I had been dreading came two days ago when in a strained voice she said "he's [...]
Sorry I haven't posted anything in a week, but I decided that I needed to leave the laptop alone and hang out with the family. We went to the zoo, a holiday train show and to Rokefeller Center to gawk at the tree.  The wife and I took in the Will Smith movie The Pursuit of Happyness, and we shopped [...]
In my own head I was not going to post anything new until the night before Christmas. Then I went to the Devil's holiday show. We knew that nothing good could come from a show in which my boy was expected to perform. For the last week we've been trying to mentally prepare the little [...]
As a broke, disgruntled non-profit director I get depressed/stressed around this time of year. Why you ask? Tipping and gift giving. For the most part I can ignore family, however the people I can't ignore are the staff at the preschool. How much do you give the person that takes care of your most prized [...]
My wife and I took the car to the dealer yesterday to once and for all address the check engine light, and get a peace of mind as we move into the cold days of winter. So we took the subway to work and preschool.  I take the train every day, but we hadn't taken [...]