Some people make friends as easily as they change clothes. They have a wardrobe full of friends that they can put on and take off at will, mixing and matching friends depending on the need or want of the moment. These are the people most of us mortals love to hate, because they always have … Continue reading The Friend Variance
I remember when we were all looking forward, not backward, to the millennium. We figured out how old we would be when the clock struck 12 over a brand new world. We listened to Prince’s 1999 on repeat, trying to glean some deeper knowledge and understanding of our brave new world from it. We used … Continue reading So This is the New Year
Today, at the water cooler, we acknowledged the thin line between giving our children/grandchildren what they want/need and spoiling them rotten so they don’t appreciate anything and take everything for granted as they grow up. The prevailing argument was against grandparents spoiling their grandkids (can you tell that the primary conversationalists were parents and not … Continue reading Sam’s Weekly Water Cooler Musings: On Spoiling
The faceless masses sit down on couches once a week, across from professionals who know them better than their own mothers, intent on once again unburdening themselves of the stress and detritus of their personal lives. And in some strange new universe, this isn’t seen as strange. I remember when I was young, and the … Continue reading Analyze Me. Please.
If you’ve read my journal entry, The Friend Manifesto, then you already know how much I value friendship. As the saying goes: You don’t get to choose your family, but you get to choose your friends, so make your choice worthwhile. I love the saying because it highlights what is most important, which doesn’t mean … Continue reading The Friend Equilibrium
It was scary at first, thinking about becoming a parent. I mean, sometimes I still feel like I’m fourteen, a latchkey kid who sometimes falls off the broken stool in the kitchen and can’t talk to girls unless he’s had some egg nog first. So, yes, it was quite scary to process that some day, … Continue reading Parenting 101
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