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 [...]