When I was in high school, I was voted Class Clown my senior year. When I was in college, I was given the PMA Award by my college swim coach. That stands for Positive Mental Attitude. If you asked my friends (both past and present) to choose one word to describe me, I can’t say […]
Life at My House
Because Life Is Mostly Gray
This morning we had a little bit of an unusual circumstance at home. I shared it on the NYAM Facebook page: I didn’t put this out there because I care about what other people think. I’m okay with being *that* parent. I’ve been *that* parent many, many times. I put this out there more as […]
2019 Was A Good Year
I think we often get to the end of a year and we focus on all the changes we want to make and the areas where we think we fell short, and we forget about all the good shit that happened along the way. Was 2019 my best year ever? I wouldn’t say so in […]
Merry Christmas To All, And To All A Good Night.
The past 36 hours have been a little crazy. Much more crazy than I wanted them to be. I did not plan or prepare the way I needed to in order to have a relaxed Christmas Eve day, and everything was last minute and rushed. I didn’t sit down to relax until 7 pm on […]
My Parents Know How To Rock The Koselig
I was doing some Christmas shopping today, and I picked up a couple things for my parents to give to the kids. They live about a half hour from me — they still live in the house I grew up in — and I was shopping down in their neck of the woods, so I […]
Seven Years
Seven years ago I was sitting on the floor in the weight room at the Y, stretching, when a staff member walked over to me and asked me if I had any kids in the Newtown Public Schools. I live in an adjacent town, and many members of the Y live in Newtown. I saw […]