You’re probably thinking, “What war on apples?” You don’t know about it because you typically think of apples from your perspective. But think about events from the apple’s point of view for a moment. The simple, small little apple is the perfect fruit. It’s delicious. It’s portable. It was designed [...]
We have officially entered the sunny-'til-9pm, 89-degree humidity, no-more-amusement-parks, get-off-my-lawn phase of summer where all of us dudes who have been straight daddin' it since school got out are digging deep into our bag of tricks to survive August with our sanity at least partially in-tact so we can draft [...]
Hot take: How much longer are we going to continue the charade that in 2018 individual school pictures are remotely necessary? Nearly every parent reading this has a phone in their pocket that has not one, but TWO cameras on it. One of those cameras is likely in the 10-12 [...]
Netflix. Hulu. Amazon Prime. HBO. YouTube Kids. Affordable flat screen TVs. No driving. Gas prices. Ticket prices. Insane candy prices. Ludicrous drink prices… These are just a few of the reasons NOT to take your kids to the movies. And yet, I love movies. My kids love movies. Unfortunately, a [...]
It’s forty minutes past the kids’ bedtime and it’s too dark to see how many shots of tiny boxes of Nerds they’ve knocked back in the last half hour. Their little hearts are pumping a mixture of Smarties, M&Ms and Kit Kats. They go from walking very slowly with their [...]
Remember the old Nike ad with Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Mark McGwire that put the phrase, “Chicks dig the long ball” into the public lexicon? The ad opens with McGwire crushing batting practice home runs into the stratosphere while a crowd fawns over every swing. Glavine is soft-tossing on [...]
THE FOLLOWING IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY PART I INTERIOR – A TYPICAL TWO-CAR GARAGE – SUNDAY AFTERNOON The father looked his daughter clear in the eyes. No blinking. No hesitation. He, 39 years old; she, all of 6 and one-quarter-months if you asked her directly. He, with his [...]
