The other day my wife told me that I’m a really good writer. Apparently she wasn’t joking nor was she buttering me up to cut the grass. It was a genuine compliment (to which I’m humbled) that also served as another attempt to motivate me to write a book on what it’s like to raise…
“If there is a heaven, I hope God sets up a battleground and He serves big-ass mugs of beer.” -Me. I’m a 41-year old Warrior. Last year, I was a 40-year old virg, err, I mean Warrior. Before that, 39. And so long as my body – and a team of physicians – allows for…
From the Chicago Sun Times: “The city of Harvey is paying $1.4 million to settle a lawsuit accusing Mayor Eric Kellogg and a police detective of sending a man to prison because they wrongly thought he stole cocaine from them.”
If you stop to think about that, it’s truly mind-boggling.
Yesterday morning my four-year old son said “Hi” to me. For most other parents, that’s not a big deal but for me it’s hard to put into words just how happy it made me feel. Think about it: it’s over 24 hours later, I’m still beaming, and am now writing about it. Just because he…
From John Boehner to Michelle Bachmann to Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney, the GOP seems to be but a shell of its old-self and the lack of true leadership and their inability to compromise is nothing short of amazing to me. They should be embarrassed and certainly deserved the ass kicking they got in November.
There’s a saying that when you’ve seen one autistic child, you’ve seen, well, one autistic child. Meaning that no two kids on the autism spectrum are exactly alike. Each child has their own quirks and struggles and trying to find the apples-to-apples comparison is nearly impossible. And if you look at the autism spectrum, itself,…
