Santa doesn’t need to buy him a gift this year. Ever since my daughter was around 2-years old we’ve both called every squirrel Chippy. It do...

Things began in good spirits when the wife and I eagerly attended our daughter’s 1st ever kindergarten school play a few days ago. We’ve bee...

There was a time not long ago when all you really needed to celebrate a traditional centuries-old Halloween, like the way many past European...

I’m not sure exactly when it happened… Maybe it was on the way home from my daughter’s ballet class last week after the teacher praised her ...

My obsession with pumpkin carving started a few years ago when I created a masterpiece of a pumpkin featuring the one and only great America...

My daughter started her first day of kindergarten today. I was expecting crying, maybe some anxiety, and maybe even some nervousness. But a...

Our babysitter of the last 5 years is going off to college this week. It’s strange because in some odd way it feels as if my own kid is goin...

It’s been 5 years since this blog was created. As I write this everything around me is reminiscent of those first days: I’m up late at night...

(It's that time of year! My annual letter to my daughter on her birthday...) Happy 5th birthday Miss Bean! Or as you call yourself, “Su...