We have a two week hiatus from swim team. The last practice of the season was this past Friday, and the next session starts the day after spring break. So there is no practice to go to this week, but I have been at the pool for new swimmer evaluations for kids who are interested in joining […]
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Making more money isn’t the answer to your money problems.
Last week I wrote a post about the most important thing we did to dig ourselves out of financial trouble. It was just one bullet point in the list of many, many things we did, but it was definitely at the top. Once we did that, it helped us to see how we had been contributing […]
I live in the Land Of The Free, and that’s the way I’m going to parent.
This morning I went for a run. And being the 4th of July, Independence Day, I was thinking about this holiday. I was thinking about how one of the greatest things about this country is that we have freedom. And then as I was running I started thinking about how, in this country where we have […]
Put the phone down. Seriously.
We live on a pretty busy corner, and we are less than a quarter mile up the hill from the middle school where Number 3 goes to school. He takes the bus in the morning, but in the afternoons he walks home because the bus company won’t let him cross the street at the top of […]
Don’t Be An A$$hole
Today I went to my favorite place — Costco — and I saw this: Eleven carts. Eleven fucking carts. I do most of my grocery shopping at Costco. I love Costco. And one of the great things about Costco is that they have like a hundred and fifty cart returns in the parking lot. They […]
Your kid isn’t the best. And it’s okay to be honest with them about that.
I was a kid in the seventies, and I graduated from high school in the eighties. It was the era of Simon and Atari and the Sony Sports Walkman and boomboxes and floppy discs. If you wanted to “tape” your favorite song, you sat next to the radio with a tape recorder for an hour waiting for […]