5 Kids, 1 Wife, 1 Grandchild

Our grandson Cal comes to our house two and sometimes three days a week. I'm at work at least one of those days, so often the only time ...

NOTE: This is a somewhat adapted version of a post that originally appeared on the blog back in 2015. When I was growing up, we had a full s...

The video at the top of today's post is a 1-minute snippet of a longer segment recorded on Wednesday, November 2, 1988, my 19th birthday...

High school track and field season is underway here in Ohio. My dad always said he didn't mind watching my cold October football games n...

Image downloaded from Wikipedia.  By J Wynia from Minneapolis, United States - Afternoon cribbage on the patio., CC BY 2.0, https://commons....

Earlier this week I had a post here describing how I used to play board games by myself as a kid whenever my friends weren't around. It...

My dad and me, circa 1980. Nice bowtie, Scott. Next month my dad will have been gone for 25 years, which is strange to me. On one hand, it f...

It's a minor miracle that, having grown up with Bob Tennant as my father, I'm not someone who swears particularly often. (NOTE: We u...

I've lived in just three houses my entire life. The only one that has had central air conditioning is the one I live in now. Not to get ...

I prompted the AI Blog Post Image Generator with "white guy in a sweater" and I love the result. This fake person perfectly convey...

  That's Judi posing with Elissa, Chloe, Jared and Melanie in what was probably 2006 or 2007. Every once in a while I stop and try to re...

Depending on which source you believe, upwards of 85-90% of people get their wisdom teeth extracted at some point. That "some point...

This was our living room tech set-up in the 80s, featuring a big old Curtis Mathis VCR and a cable box resting on top of a wood cabinet RCA ...

Every year until I was well into my 20s, I would ask my dad what he wanted for Christmas. And every year he would say the same thing: "...

When I was growing up, the joke in our house was that my dad  –  who would have turned 94 years old this week, by the way  –  was mayor of H...

This is my current set of wheels The standards I have for personal vehicles are low, having been shaped by the fact that I am Bob Tennant...

I'm a nostalgic guy who looks back fondly on his younger years. The music to which I listen is one example of this. I have many modern/s...

This is what the set of the WJW newscast looked like in 1977. That's Kathy Adams on the left, Judd Hambrick in the middle, and some guy ...

That's my father holding newborn Jared, August 1998. We share what could be described as a dark sense of humor in my family. There are m...

When I was growing up, my dad worked in an office environment as a data processing specialist for Lake County, Ohio. He worked with those bi...