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Everyone talks about ‘Phillies Karen’— but Dad and Son ‘just doing the right...
Maybe you haven’t heard (or seen) how some poor soul dubbed “Phillies Karen” is suffering at the hands of, well, just about everyone. It’s one of those cases where everyone agrees — haven’t heard a...
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Regret: My Mother can’t realize how rebellious Daughter has inherited her...
Regrets … I’ve had a few … The older I get, the fewer regrets I hang on to, not that there were many to start with. I’ve had a great run for many years, and I’m not done yet. Many ups, many downs. Now...
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Our Empty Nest arrived early — but we’re rolling with some of the same...
“I just want to stop by for a minute and pet the cats, and pick up something.” It was the first Monday following Daughter’s move, setting up house in a beachside condo with her boyfriend. She was...
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What? Younger Daughter has turned 18! Dad’s still Old (even Older). Where...
One day I blinked, and she was 16, buying her own car and paying her own insurance. I momentarily rubbed my eyes, and when my fingers dropped, she’ had turned 18 and signed a lease for her own place...
View ArticleThe ultimate complication of being an Older Dad: Likely you’ll miss the 2nd...
Not too sure where I’m going with this, but I’m compelled to share a story that lacks a tidy ending. When I began writing this blog 10 years ago, I always followed my own rules: write about what you...
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Hatching my latest scheme: This time, I get Santa kicked out of the mall
You could call this, “the day Santa got booted from the mall.” In this case, Santa was me. And I actually got booted from the sidewalk in front of the mall. But the fact of the matter remains. It all...
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Christmas trees Florida-style: Shopping in swim trunks, but sticking with a...
Moving to Florida has required many adjustments in our lives and traditions. This year, the pandemic has walked all over family plans. My wife’s family takes an annual trek to a different part of the...
View ArticleThere are older parents who bear a painful burden, but step up to stand in...
There is another type of Older Dad, Younger Child in our midst: Fathers who are raising their children’s children. Many causes create the situation: imprisonment, inability to provide care, and in the...
View ArticleSuffering social life: Teens need to see each other and get around, but...
Mobility is an important issue at age 13, especially when all of your friends live between 20 and 1,000-plus miles away. Normally, teens can do most of their feeding at the friendship trough during...
View ArticleNobody wants visitors from Florida: Covid-19 means roadblocks at the border
Being 13 years old is a full-time struggle. It’s tough to find friends — 3 schools in 3 years, and a 1,000-mile move. She’s met a few friends since moving to Florida; the 6th-grade friends from a...
View ArticleFather’s Day: If you’re lucky, you have received — or now you’re giving —...
I know, every (male) blogger with half of a brain feels compelled to write about Father’s Day. I’m no exception (especially the half a brain part). I’m fortunate to be at a time in my life when I still...
View ArticleWhen did this change? She couldn’t wait to get braces — but the price...
When I was 13, getting braces was a drudgery no child would willingly anticipate or take on. They were ugly, they made you look different — “Hey metal mouth,” and “Is that railroad tracks in your...
View ArticleFacebook flashback photos take us back in time — but didn’t predict the future
If you have Facebook, it’s likely you get those flashback pictures — “10 years ago” and so on and so forth. It’s supposed to be a feelgood kind of thing. It digs deeper into your gut when a child is...
View ArticleThe 7th Grade Blues, When It Just Didn’t Add Up (for the first time)
It can be a rough tumble from top of the heap to just another face in the crowd. It’s a lesson Daughter and I have both experienced — actually, she’s experiencing it now. Many years ago, I yawned my...
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Feeling growing pains — and watching beauty and grace blossoming before me
It was early on a Sunday evening. The three of us sat around the small round table in the area of our house that we have loosely described as the dining room. I can’t remember what we were eating. But...
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Music echoes through time — but now I hear dead people
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and bottles of bubbles … During our more-than 2000-mile trip, that Arianna Grande pop hit was on some sort of radio perpetual motion machine, playing in every state, every...
View ArticleMoving to Florida: Frustration and chaos, but Daughter’s smile overshadows all
Never has there been such turmoil, such change, such incredibly demanding work. My family’s possessions are scattered: A full storage unit in Florida. A stuffed PackRat trailer stashed in Cherry Hill,...
View ArticleNew memories of Kindergarten, inside looking out: Small students, big hearts
It’s Kindergarten Graduation Time. Again. It’s been six years since Young Daughter made this same step up to 1st grade. It’s the kind of June morning where the mugginess plasters your shirt to your...
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Sweet friendship is blind for Birthday girls; meanwhile, one gift is painful...
You know she’s growing up when she hits the birthday when the gifts include only one toy … and a collection of clothing, books, gift cards, a beautiful photo collage of daughter through the years, and...
View ArticleKindergarten: Finding a classroom home during students’ Age of Exploration
Kindergarten? Kindergarten. Kindergarten! If you had asked me a year ago the grade level I’d be least likely to teach, that was the answer. But here I am: In a kindergarten classroom — and loving it....
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