You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down
Originally published on my old blog in 2009 as a sort of experiment. It was written as an episodic, and I played it totally by-the-book: I had a single idea to base it on but no plot line in mind (not even an outline), and I sat down and wrote each chapter as the urge [...]
What’s This Word Say?
Possibly my favorite entry from my old blog, once again about my daughter. Originally published on August 14th, 2010. For the past 14 years (wow, time flies!) I’ve worked professionally in the arena of educational software. The vast majority of that work has been focused on helping kids with reading difficulties overcome those issues [...]
Brothers
Another particularly important one (for me, anyway) from my old blog, this time about my best friend Jim. I called him Sid in the original article due to an overzealous privacy instinct. But really, what’s the harm in using a real first name here? I’m not going to worry about it, and hopefully Jim doesn’t [...]
A Day at the Beach
I’m not going to drag over every single article from my old blog, just a few that I think are particularly meaningful/interesting/amusing to me. Here’s the first of those, about my daughter. Originally published on June 26th, 2010. Today was the first day since the beginning of this new Summer season that I managed [...]
Go Bruins!
I happened to go to my first-ever Bruins game just a few weeks ago (thanks Anthony!), and it happened to be a Bruins-Canadiens game (as good as hockey gets, as even a non-sports-guy like me knows – And yes, they honored me at my first game by winning 7 – 0). A few weeks later [...]
Fairy Tales Can Come True
My daughter turned 7 a couple of months ago. That was the point where I finally realized it was time to stop saying “One of these days I really need to take that kid to Disney World” and to start actually making it happen. I planned, I plotted, I schemed, I scheduled, and as I [...]
Is It Summer Yet?
I just returned from a spectacular dinner at Ristorante Fiore in Boston’s North End with my daughter, my dear cousin, and her husband (names omitted to protect the innocent), and I’d highly recommend the NY Strip steak. And the shrimp cocktail. Oh yeah, and the crème brûlée was nothing to shake a stick at either! [...]
The Great Migration
I’ll be slowly moving selected entries from my old blog to this new blog in the coming weeks, as well as adding some new content on a more regular basis (or at least I have the noblest intentions of doing so at the moment). Stay tuned…