Sportsmanship

The Boy spends his summers going to a wide variety of camps and activities.  This year was no exception.  He spent the majority of weeks at Karate camp–taking lessons, visiting museums, swimming twice a week, hitting the beach, and making new friends.
Before that he went to Lacrosse camp, confirming his love for the sport and [...]

For those of you who are unobservant…

I started a new page for this site to keep a log of the running my son and I are going to try to do almost daily.  You can find it up top with the rest of the pages to this site.
It seemed to make sense to separate that bit, so it had a chance [...]

Playoff Wishes

The playoffs (MLB) start tonight.
Please, please, A-Rod, come through for the Yanks this post season.  I really, really, REALLY, want you to make all the talking heads shut the HELL up; I want the debate settled.
I want you to make NYC fans eat some humble pie.
I want your wife’s F*** You t-shirt to reign supreme.
I [...]

Manly Men and Other Myths

Watching boxing this evening and one of the light heavyweight contenders is boxing with iridescent lavender shorts. To compliment these astounding britches, he has matching lavender gloves. It’s impossible to take him and his entire lavender-clad corner seriously as he bounces around the ring, sparkling and jabbing, jabbing and sparkling. We’re not [...]

A-Rod (for PETE) and Stuff

Like most men, A-Rod drums up some very mixed feelings in me. I am in awe of him. I admire him. I feel sorry for him…. I want to smack him–and not in a good way. Before embarking on writing about him I went and read his Wikipedia entry to make sure [...]