I’m beginning to rethink polygamy. And communes. With some tinkering, I think these concepts might be worthy of consideration. For the last few days, Dave and I engaged in a little communal living and I must say it has been rather pleasant. To set the scene, our friends Doug and Mo and their two [...]
Well, it’s not lonely anymore! Per Jennifer’s post yesterday, MoB was honored to be granted “the honest and scrappy” award by Elizabeth and Anne at Life In Pencil, a great blog you should check out if you haven’t already. So, in staying true to the distinction that was so generously granted, here are 10 honest things [...]
There comes a time in a young man’s life when he must learn the lessons of his elders… when he must embrace the unwritten laws of the family no matter how difficult they are to comprehend… when he must test his mettle and choose between that which beckons from his heart and that which [...]
I wrote the following yesterday after a particularly challenging weekend with the brothers who couldn’t seem to stop nagging and complaining and fighting with one another. Today is Yom Kippur – a time when Jews ask for and grant forgiveness. This does a little of both for me as it relates to my boys. To [...]
Warning: The following post contains language that may make some MoB readers uncomfortable. It sure made me cringe. On Monday night I was pleased to find that Noah had finished his homework without any nagging encouragement from me. He was about to go to bed when he suddenly got the same startled look in his eyes that [...]
My overnight trip to New York last Wednesday was a last minute one, due to an early morning meeting that came together in the eleventh hour. My boss had warned that getting a hotel room would be next to impossible as it was Fashion Week and United Nations Week. But I tried anyway and was pleased [...]
Today is the last day of my 11 day full body cleanse. By the way, for those who are wondering, there were NO enemas involved in this process. I just had to say that for fear that you might think there were. When you hear the word body cleanse, most people think enema. Did you? [...]
Yesterday was laundry day but only because I declared it to be. I really like doing laundry. Truly. But maybe that’s because I do it on my own terms. And interestingly, I do it nothing like the way my mother did laundry. There is no set day. I throw loads in whenever I want [...]
I was hesitant as I packed Noah’s school lunch last week. After all, the days of elementary school are behind us. He is a cool middle school kid now and I didn’t know the protocol for “tween” dining. There wasn’t a single step in the entire process that didn’t give me pause: Get out brown [...]
I feel a little guilty NOT posting about the brothers’ first days of school, but honestly you will be hearing so much about my their issues around school as the year progresses that I’m already over it. Plus every blogger is writing about “back to school” so we at MoB are being counter intuitive. Yeah, [...]
