5 Kids, 1 Wife, 1 Grandchild

You don't have to watch any of this video, let alone all 4 minutes of it. I'm not even sure why I include it here, since it's on...

I don't spend a lot of time on the Threads social media platform, but recently I found myself there. I came across a post from a fellow ...

  I go through periods in which I'm very sentimental and nostalgic for the years when my kids were young. They're still "young,...

Strangely enough (to me anyway), one of the most-read posts in the history of this blog is one from 2013 in which I wrote about the fact tha...

I had never been a season ticket holder for any sport when the Lake Erie Monsters came to Cleveland in 2007. But I knew I liked hockey, and ...

My morning drive to the office takes me through 6+ miles of mostly residential streets. I see people walking their dogs, little kids playing...

We have been full season ticket holders for all 18 seasons the Cleveland Monsters hockey team has existed. While the Monsters are a minor l...

There are certain things for which you go to Mom when you need help and certain things for which you generally go to Dad. In our family, the...

It was only when I became a parent that I realized how amazingly short our kids' summer break from school really was. At least in our di...

  This shot was taken many years after we were married, but it was a re-creation of a photo we took on our honeymoon in 1992 at Universal St...

The AI Blog Post Image Generator tried so hard. Every weekday morning on my drive to the office, I pass an elementary school. Unless I'm...

If you have a child between the ages of, say, 5 and 17, and that child is active in some sort of group activity like a sport or music or the...

  My longtime Wickliffe friend Laura Jones got a kick out of it some years ago when I posted the image above in reference to how expensive i...

  In two days, my daughter Elissa turns 30 years old. I could go on and on about the things that make Elissa an impressive force of nature, ...

This is us with our kids (and our son-in-law Michael thrown in for good measure) at Disney World a couple of years ago. I've always like...

It has very little to do with the topic of today's post, but I wanted to show you this photo, the result of me prompting an online artif...

I'm trying to remember when we bought our backyard playset from the good folks at Playground World. It was probably 15 years ago, and th...

Our youngest child, Jack, recently got his temporary driver's permit. We have been down this road four times before, and each time, it h...

I was 22 years old and hadn't even graduated from college when I made my first mortgage payment. It was March 1992 and Terry and I had j...

Four of our kids are in their 20s, but they’re at very different stages of their lives. Elissa is 27 and has a thriving career as a marketer...