What kind of father am I? 
With just a couple of days before I leave for a three-weak run in Vegas, I should be teaching my son how to build a house, or at the very least, fire a shotgun.  These are useful skills that, in the event of my unfortunate demise in Sin City, [...]

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Here on Mt. Otis, we are some of the worst excuse makers around. Ask my kid why he did something bad, and he’ll respond, “Because I did.” Ask the wife why she’s acting like a young Linda Blair, she says, “Because I need to eat.” Ask me why I roll in so [...]

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Autumn makes me think. Spring makes me feel. Winter makes me numb. Summer makes me…me.
Summer smells like cut grass at sundown. It looks like a teenage girl’s windblown sundress. It feels like sweat on the back of my neck. It sounds like the Beach Boys in a box-fan cooled [...]

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I’ve managed to make optimism a fault. I don’t know how it happened, but some time in the last decade, I’ve figured out a way to find silver linings in sow’s ears (not to mentioned mixed metaphors) and do it so incessantly that I don’t think anything will ever go wrong. It’s a [...]

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I’ve just spent five days as Mr. Mom. It was exhausting, frustrating, and absolutely fantastic. I have way too much to do to properly recount the past week. Two quick anecdotes, though, just to remind myself of them later.
One night, we went to dinner with my friend G-Rob. Somehow the subject [...]

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My wife is on a boat somewhere and sleeping in a cabin with another pretty woman. I made sure my wife’s camera was charged before she left.
Beginning yesterday morning and lasting until Monday night, I’m Mr. Mom. This means a variety of things, but the long and short of it is, [...]

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My new shirt came in the mail yesterday. I’m wearing it this afternoon.
Today at lunch, the boy looked at me with the same, innocent and quizzical eyes. “Who are those guys, Daddy?”
I looked down at my shirt. Two crayons sat on my unimpressive chest. “This is Mr. White and [...]

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