No electricity. No touch screen. No Internet connection. Just centrifugal force and joy.
The joy that a child can experience in a toy as simple as a top is something to behold. Or even a stick on a ribbon, operating on similar…
Still in love
Watching and listening to my children talk and play together is probably my favorite thing in the world at this moment.
A bungled MVP presentation demonstrates a truth about storytelling. Also, I’m available for hire, Chevy. And you need me. Desperately.
As part of Speak Up, our Hartford-based storytelling organization, my wife and I teach storytelling and public speaking to large classes, small groups, and individual storytellers. After watching the Chevrolet’s…
My son wants attention. Just not from me. And it’s starting to hurt a little.
Almost every morning for the past year or more, my son has awoken from sleep and called for his mother. “Mommy!” He will shout this word for as long as…
The vastly underutilized “You told me so.”
As I’ve made clear, I am an enormous fan of the “I told you so,” going to far as to have an “I told you do” calendar. What I would…
The two days that I will not miss my children and pets one bit
Someday, far into the future, there will be no children and no pets running around our home. I will be deeply saddened by this. Except on the mornings of Daylight…
He can sing the Clean Up song. Does this mean he might actually learn to clean up someday?
Listening to my son sing The Clean Up Song is great. I have no idea where he learned it, but hearing him sing it is incredibly cute. I’m just hoping…
Resolution update: October 2014
In an effort to hold myself accountable, I post a list my New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of each month, along with their progress (or lack thereof). With two…
Halloween has meant many different things to me depending upon the year. Have your Halloweens followed a similar trajectory?
Halloween is one of the few holidays that has changed completely depending on how old I am. As a child, I donned a Halloween costume and went trick-or-treating, hoping to…
People will still try to destroy you.
In my experience, this may be true, but it doesn’t mean that you are safe. Fools and extremists may attempt to destroy you anyway.
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