When do I get to call myself a writer? Do you have to be published, have a certain # of views? Or do I just start calling myself that and see what happens. What do you do? I'm a writer. Sounds so much better than "I work in finance". It gives me so much more... Continue Reading →

Over the weekend the wife and I were waiting for our coffees at Dunkin Donuts. We ordered and waited and there was a guy who was a few people in front of us. And he was losing it, at first quietly complaining about how long his coffee was taking and as his wait changed from... Continue Reading →

This past weekend my youngest daughter, Kiley, 12, had her last cheerleading competition to see if she could earn a bid to Summit. If you don’t know, Summit is the big event, the championships for the entire country in Walt Disney World.  All the teams want to go to Summit.   Last year her team did make... Continue Reading →

I promise this isn't a commercial for my daughters dance studio! Last night my oldest daughter "competed" in a dance competition called Spirit of Dance with a few of her friends from her dance studio also competing. Last night was to be all the solo dances. My oldest had been stressing about this night for... Continue Reading →

I’ve been struggling to come up with my next writing topic ever since I put out my last story.  I have been staring at a blank Microsoft Word document ever since.  I enjoyed writing that story, I enjoyed sharing my world and being as real as I could be, but it sort of left me... Continue Reading →

This story is going to be tough for me to write for lots of reasons. But, it's real, and it's part of my story so I can't just write the good stuff. Here are the details you might need to know. There was a woman I worked with for about a year.   She worked... Continue Reading →

  Sometimes it's so easy being a Dad... This week the wife asked if I would take the 14 year old out to shop for an outfit for her first real no adult’s concert coming up.  I didn't know you needed a full new outfit for that?  I thought she could wear one of the 8000 shirts... Continue Reading →

It’s been exactly 1 year since I started my blog….72 Posts, 9,700 views, and 57,626 words and 1 very grateful writer.  My most viewed blog was called Red Umbrella about my daughter playing Mary Poppins in a ballet show, with 1,010 views. When I started writing stories I never did it for clicks, or likes or to sell... Continue Reading →

You know as parents sometimes you just say something to see what your kids reaction would be?   My Mom would do this to me all the time as a kid  “Did something happen in English class today?” and I would think for a second “how they hell does she know” and I would then say... Continue Reading →