Ahhhhhh, maybe. That magical word that lives in the nether realms between yes and no, and which always means one or the other and you know it. To paraphrase a great Jedi master I once knew, “Yes or yes not. There is no maybe.” ‘Maybe’ is a code word that, as far as I knew […]
Category Archives: Edward
I Can’t Stop SINGing! (Yes I Can)
Today I would like you to watch a short video of my son, dancing around the living room to a tune that he wrote. The video was funny enough on its own, which is why I started recording it in the first place, but the twist ending, in which he learns not to wave his […]
The Tortoise, The Hare, and Their Frustrated Father
Once upon a time, in the era of fables and fairy tales, a young man named Aesop was walking through the woods when he discovered an unusual looking tree with a hollowed out trunk. As Aesop climbed in to inspect this strange opening, he suddenly found himself in the distant future, where he met two […]
What To Do When You Are On Vacation And Have Forgotten An Important Medication
This is not the first time that this has happened, but I sure do hope it will be the last. I left for a weekend in Maine without Edward’s medicine. My wife gave me a list, and I checked it twice. I packed everything on that list, triple checking the medications for the children. And […]
If You Give A Kid A Laser Weapon…
How was your New Year’s Eve? Ours was awesome, as usual. Because we live in Burlington, VT, which means that we get to go to First Night! Buy a button and you have access to shows, crafts, events, projects, art, and so much more, with no alcohol, smoking, or other non-family friendly items allowed. This […]
How to Know When You’ve Won Christmas
Well, Christmas happened. Edward and Ruby got more stuff than they could ever need, as usual, and they have been happily playing with it all ever since. And after Christmas morning we went up to my mother-in-law’s for more presents. We did have a nice day off on Friday, but then on Saturday it was […]
It’s the Third Most Wonderful Day of the Year!
Ruby is very excited. She, like me, is not a morning person, and yet she woke up long before anyone else today. Edward, our human alarm clock, is still sleeping (probably because he was up at 2, trying to climb into Ruby’s bed in the hopes that this mid-night act would cause Santa to arrive […]
Disney On Ice – Turns Out It’s A Lot of Ice Skating
When I was a kid, watching Saturday morning cartoons, there was nothing so tantalizingly amazing as the commercials for Disney on Ice. Disneyland? Yeah, we knew we were probably not going there, but Disney on Ice?! That was coming to US! Chances are you knew way more people who had been to Disney on Ice […]
The Inaugural Load
I don’t know if there are any true themes running throughout these pages and pages of Tenor Dad posts, but if there are any, one of them has got to be laundry. From Ruby’s new house wishlist of sidewalks and laundry, to sneaking around my mother-in-law’s apartment trying to wash some clothes; from weird ruminations […]
I Hope His Teacher Likes Baymax…
Uh oh. The last days of school are winding down before Christmas break, which means we are heading into the dangerous waters of…(dun dun duuuuuuuuuunnnnnnn!) teacher gifts. When I was a kid, we had one teacher, and we brought them one gift. It was often something terrible that either we made, or got for $5 […]