Wow, it's been a long time since I put up a new blog post here. Anyway, here's my newest post from earlier today. It originally appeared on my personal blog and you can read it here. Also, feel free to check out my other blog for some other pieces that [...]
I don't know Ray McDonald. I know a bit about him. I know he is an eight-year NFL veteran.1 I know he was drafted from the University of Florida by the San Francisco 49ers in 2007. I know he is a pretty talented football player; you'd have to be to [...]
Spring is a great time of year to be a sports fan. March gives us the men's and women's college basketball tournaments that cripple workplace productivity as people replace spreadsheets and phone calls with box scores and online play-by-play logs. It's the time of year when NBA and NHL teams [...]
This post was originally published on the Huffington Post's sports blog, The Tackle. The same post is below, but if you'd like to see my name and head-shot on The Huffington Post, feel free to take a gander with this link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-yavelberg/keep-up-the-chatter-youth_b_6865492.html?utm_hp_ref=the-tackle Enjoy! I played a number of sports when [...]
Dear Eitan, I owe you an apology. Today was rough for me. The details are not really important; suffice it to say that I struggled with a number of things throughout the day. I struggled so much, in fact, that I apparently did a very poor job of hiding the [...]
The room is dark. The lamps on the street below cast vague shadows onto the walls of the room. The windows from the building across the street reflect the alternating red, yellow and green from the traffic light at the corner, while the white security light shines brightly on the [...]
I have some good news and some bad news. Good news: there have been signs of progress in Eitan's sleep training. Last week, on consecutive nights, he slept straight through until 4:30 and 5:15. Bad news: he woke up three times during each of the following two nights.1 Good news: [...]
Eitan somehow ended up in our bed last night. The "somehow" seems confusing, I know. Eitan is a toddler, almost 20 months old, so we assume that he didn't make it out of the crib on his own. His upper body strength is actually pretty impressive, as I've seen him [...]