A few times each month I take to the open road and find myself in a hotel room for a night or two. I like hotel rooms, especially the ones that are nicer and cleaner than my home – two hurdles that are frankly not that high. Every road warrior has his or her [...]
If someone suggested that you spend your free time engaging in an activity that required the skill of a 9 year old, the patience of an 80 year old, dozens of hours, and in the end resulted in nothing of value, would you shudder with excitement and ask “when can I start?” I would. For [...]
I think I am losing my edge. I let Noah stay home from school yesterday without him exhibiting any of the required symptoms necessary to warrant a day pass. Parents have various thresholds to permit absenteeism. Mine are fairly high. Patient must have one of the following: Vomit Diarrhea (although as a stand alone symptom that [...]
Kudos to Emily for her exquisite timing of the Waldorf Astoria Presidential Suite post yesterday! I had never really heard of the luxe accommodations until she got bumped up to them last week. Yesterday, in perfect synch with her post, the Suite was all over the news because President Obama had checked in. Sadly, too [...]
As I sat across the dinner table from Dave on Tuesday night I wondered if perhaps we should eat naked. After all we deposited the boys at sleep away camp earlier that morning and it was just the two of us, staring at each other thinking about what to say. This was the moment we [...]
Maternal guilt is riding high over here at MoB these days… Well, maybe not too high… Okay, I actually think Jennifer and I have come to terms with our most recent parental misstep… Fine, we don’t have any guilt whatsoever but we do feel obligated to recognize a birthday. Last week, on May 15, 2009, [...]
The following is a free public service announcement for parents with children under the age of 4 or for parents-to-be: Meet Emily. Emily was a well-intentioned mother with a deep, dark secret. It was so deep and so dark, in fact, that she didn’t even know about it until this week. Like many young mothers [...]
This past Saturday I competed in my first sprint triathlon. As far as races go, I think this one was a little cushy. A cushy triathlon? Isn’t that a little oxymoronic? Perhaps. But I call it cushy for a few reasons: 1) It was indoors. We swam in a pool instead of a river or [...]
Morbid fascination got the better of me this week as I followed with great interest the release of the cockpit recordings from Continental Flight 3407 which tragically crashed near Buffalo earlier this year. I think a lot about plane crashes and the absolute horror that must consume the victims. But the coverage of the NTSB [...]
I overheard the following conversation last week between a husband and wife: She: So, what are you getting me for Mother’s Day? He: Nothing. You’re not my mother. Makes you think, doesn’t it? If you happen to be a husband and father of children under the age of uh…. 30, the weight of Mother’s Day [...]
