Books, Sports, Rhymes & Life
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
— James Barrie
It’s a cliché that having a child changes your life forever, but things become clichés because they’re true, and one of the biggest adjustments is just how much stuff children come with and how difficult it is to keep it all organized.
Continue reading “My Children Help Me Battle My OCD (Just By Being Themselves)”
I began playing organized basketball at the age of six.
By the age of ten, I was playing year-round for various travel teams in various leagues, almost always in the age bracket above mine. There was never an offseason. Camps, practices, summer leagues, fall leagues, spring leagues, open gyms – I did it all. When state rules prevented us from holding official practices, we all met at our point guard’s home and conducted practices on the full court in his backyard.
Basketball was an everyday thing.
Continue reading “Don’t Break the Chain: The Value of Persistence”
My second time visiting an operating room as an expectant father was different from the first in a variety of ways.
It was in a different hospital in a different city with different doctors.
Most of all, though, it was planned.
My life did not turn out the way I would have expected.
To say that the nature of television is changing would be a massive understatement.
“I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.”
– Jim Gaffigan
I do the grocery shopping in my house.
