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 ...

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...

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....

I don't know if kids still do this, but when I was growing up, my friends and I would play with fireworks any and every chance we got. B...

Today would have been my mom's 93rd birthday. She passed away five years ago this summer, right in the middle of the pandemic. What made...

That's my mom with Jared and me at Jared's graduation party, 2017. My mother was one of the sweetest, funniest, most genuine people ...

  Full disclosure: I stole the photo above from the folks at Bob Evans, who want you to know they're basically ready to cater your entir...

I logged countless episodes of "Card Sharks" growing up. I am repeatedly reminded of the fact that I grew up in a very different t...

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'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...

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...

My mom passed away one year ago today, so my choice here was either to write about how much we miss her and how wonderful she was, or to bri...

Obviously not our house, but this is sometimes what it felt like when I was growing up. For a long time — from 1992 when we were married and...

I am far from the first person to consider this, and I won't articulate it especially well, but it's rolling around in my head on th...

I have almost always been an early riser. When I was in 3rd grade, my mom was still making me go to bed at 9:00 PM even though I usually nee...

It was the early 80s, I guess. And when she was between shopping trips but the family needed bread, my mom would send me to the grocery stor...

  I'll start by apologizing for hitting on such a heavy theme (death) two days in a row, but this one is actually kind of nice. The beau...

I spent 1982 longing after a Commodore 64 computer. I tried to find ways of saving up for one, but for most of that year I was 12 years old ...