On April Fool’s Day 2020 – Celebrating 20 years of marriage

Yep.  Your eyes aren’t playing an April fool’s trick.  You can immediately count that in 2000 I was married.   On a foolhardy day. Literally!  Those were heady times.   Turning 30.   Turning from single-hood to marriage-hood.  Turning from a co-tenant in my parent’s home... ...to a co-landlord in our own.  And now in 2020 As I look back over the past 20 I ask myself:  What … Continue reading On April Fool’s Day 2020 – Celebrating 20 years of marriage

On International Women’s Day, one father’s take on ‘The Son’

Watching a play about a son's impending mental breakdown and his parents' powerlessness to help him probably wasn't the most ideal way to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD). Plus my wife and I watched the afternoon matinee version on the 7th, and not today, the 8th of March. So the connection to IWD was even … Continue reading On International Women’s Day, one father’s take on ‘The Son’