Month: August 2011

Several years ago, The Big Daddy and I went to see “Open Water”.   The movie was about a couple that goes scuba diving in the Barrier Reef and when they come up, the tour boat has left without them.   It was based on a true story and by the end, they succumb to the elements.  … Read more

Next year at this time, The Big Daddy and I will be empty-nesters.  No more up and at ’em in the early dawn.  No more packing a lunch or signing off on forms we haven’t read.  No more crazy parking lot of crazy teenage drivers.  And no more Back To School Night. Thank God. Every … Read more

The Big Daddy loves to fish which is why he never misses “River Monsters.”  One episode of River Monsters was about a fish that is so small it can (and will) enter a man’s penis.  I bet you never heard about that one during the Meet and Greet at the club.  Our cottage was on … Read more

When the Boy Child was in high school, he fell hard for Sara Bareillles and her lovely voice.  She was coming to a club in Kansas City and he begged me to take him since he wasn’t old enough to get in by himself.  I was a very reluctant chaperone.  It had poured that day … Read more

My kids are of an age that requires far more $$$ than highlighters in order to start the school year.   We still have the mega-buck calculator (under threat of serious harm to anyone who loses it) and the backpack does not get replaced unless you make a mighty good case in front of the … Read more

This is the Captain, who is married to my sister.  The Captain loves his boat.  Like he would be a polygamist and marry it if he could.  When we landed on the shores of Lake Michigan, he couldn’t wait to get that thing in the water. This is the boat that would take us water … Read more

The Boy Child kicked the dorm life to the curb this year and is moving into an apartment.  To say he was excited would be putting it mildly.  Why are these kids so damn happy to leave this house?  He and his dad went to get the moving truck and we loaded it up and … Read more

Day Two of our vacation was the wedding of our niece, Meghan to Geoff.  Those two are fun, fun, fun and it doesn’t hurt that they look like they walked out of an Abercrombie ad.  My brother and their mother divorced years ago and he had custody of Meghan and her three siblings.  Several years … Read more

The family vacation started last Friday with The Big Daddy driving the family to Chicago.  He tends to fancy himself as a pioneer, forging a trail northward for Ma and the Youngins.  We have hitched our wagon to this trail for nineteen long years and The Big Daddy is about making Good Time.  Move along, let’s go, time’s … Read more