My favorite thing in the world to be is a parent. There is nothing else that comes close, no other job that I prefer. Job? Yes, I said job. Being a parent is not all about fun and games; it’s real work (for those of you who are not parents yet). The funny thing about […]
read moreGrass – Sidewalk – Grass; Nothing But Window Dressing
Grass, sidewalk, grass – Growing up, my buddy, Steve Szymanski, and I always talked about the type of neighborhood we wanted to live in when we got older, when we “made it”. We both grew up in East Boston, and the notion of grass, sidewalk, grass meant that you were successful; that you “made it”. […]
read moreI Found My Fandom (My Kids Had It)
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a post about how I lost my fandom: The Snow Bowl Took Away My Fandom. It describes how the Snow Bowl in Foxboro Stadium in 2001 was my last recollection of being a sports fan. It’s not that I stopped being a fan, it was just that the […]
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