5 Kids, 1 Wife (and 1 Grandchild)

Cal and me The most common question I received before and after my grandson Calvin was born three weeks ago was what exactly the little guy...

Jack on his first day of college The recent birth of our grandson has somewhat overshadowed another significant family milestone, which is ...

  The handsome young gentleman pictured above is Calvin, my grandson. He is two days old and the first grandchild with which Terry and I hav...

This is one of those 4D ultrasound images. Taken last month, it shows my grandson at around 30 weeks gestation. Ain't he handsome? For y...

My wife is a gardener and somewhat of a flower/plant expert. Well, "expert" when compared with me, anyway. I have little knowledge...

Tomorrow our son Jared turns 27, which feels about right. What I mean is that, yes, instinctively I think of Jared as someone in his later m...

Last month I was in the grocery store and ran into Jenny, a high school classmate and track teammate of mine. We were chatting and updating ...

Later this month, we will celebrate having lived in our house for 22 years. We moved in on July 19, 2003. I remember the exact date because....

  Recently my son Jared proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lyndsey, and she said yes. None of this was a surprise to us. It was eventually ...

(NOTE: You always hear from me, so I thought it might be fun to hear from the kids for a change. Today we chat with our 28-year-old daughter...

Nothing. I'm doing nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited my daughter Chloe is due to give birth to our first grandchild ...

When you add up my vacation, personal days and floating holidays, I have something like 19 days of leisure to play with in 2025. That's ...

A few months ago I wrote about the fact that I do four New York Times puzzles every morning (Wordle, Connections, Strands, and The Mini. ) M...

To avoid "burying the lede," as they say in the journalism trade, let's begin with the big news in our family these days: My d...

I used to live with all of these people. Just don't ask me about the details. It's not like Terry and I are 80 years old or anything...

Me trying to compute the exact ages of my children I call August through October "birthday season" in our family, as three of our ...

Once our youngest, Jack, finished high school, I figured Terry and I had thrown our last graduation party. Then our daughter Chloe got her P...

I am not, by nature, a water drinker. I drink it at the gym in the morning, but after that, it's usually coffee or nothing at all. I rea...

  Recently, my son Jared texted with this request: "Can you make a playlist of the songs you played in the van circa 2002? Trying to re...

I'm kidding, of course. I mean, we really did have the Cleveland Indians-Boston Red Sox doubleheader on the TV in the labor and delivery...