Fathers & Sons

Today is my son’s birthday. He’s the ripe old age of 9, and as the saying goes, it seems like only yesterday he came into this world in the middle of a snow-covered March night. He was a surprise baby, for sure. But to imagine our lives without him is to imagine a far less […]

An Elaborate Game of Make Believe

School was cancelled again today and they’ve already called it for tomorrow. It’s supposed to get down to -15 degrees tonight, and that’s not even with the wind chill factor. I stayed home as well. I probably could’ve made it into work, but what was the point? No trucks were running today so we didn’t […]

Atlas, I Am Not

While I do occasionally support my own little sphere in this great big crazy world, I don’t sport the glutes, pecs, abs, and biceps that our primordial Greek friend did. I am a mere mortal man, attempting to extend his measly life a few more years by working out (semi)regularly. To be alive a smidgen […]

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year(?)

It seems like it was only yesterday that we were arguing about who was going to go outside and take Christmas lights down in sub-zero temps, carry box after box of ornaments and decorative Santas back downstairs to their place of slumber under said stairs, and find a spot in that torn up Christmas tree […]

Steinbeck’s Lost Joad: Remembering My Grandpa

Had he lived another year my Grandpa Dale would now be 86 years old. He died a year ago last Sunday, November 10th, 2012. Had he been alive this past April we would’ve celebrated his birthday the same way we have celebrated his birthday for the last 10 years, and that would be with a […]

Random Thoughts Part III

There’s one Christmas that sticks out from my childhood more than any. It was the Christmas I received the Spiderman Rescue Helicopter. This thing was massive. You know those Barbie Corvettes they used to sell to little girls that grew up to be big girls with huge expectations? Well, this helicopter was that big. Big […]

Trick-Or-Treat 2013

Candy schuckin’ was postponed till tonight due to inclement(crappy)weather. Good thing, cause we had a hell of a time. I’ll post more later, but here’s our evening.

Happy Halloween

I’m not sure how Halloween is going to be in your neck of the woods, but in mine it’s not going to be all that great. Rain, rain, rain…wind, wind, wind…blech, blech, blech. The city went so far as to cancel trick-or-treating tonight and moved it to tomorrow, which is probably a good idea. My […]

A Halloween Tale…

When I was 14 my best friend and I decided we wanted to try an Ouija board. Yeah I know, “Don’t mess with things you can’t surely understand.” Well, when you’re 15 years old you don’t give a s**t about common sense and things of that nature. I didn’t believe in that sort of stuff […]

The Great Pumpkin(ain’t so great no more)

I have six pumpkins sitting on my front porch waiting to be disemboweled and have funny, scary, and downright bizarre faces carved into their currently blank faces. That’s not really at the top of my priority list, to be honest. I look out at my yard with 10. 6 cubic tons of pine needles covering […]