Okay, I’ll admit it. It’s wearing me down. This single parenting thing. And I don’t even know what it is about it! My wife is home on weekends, and the kids have, so far anyway, been in school during the daytimes. The amount of time that I have to be “on” is not all that […]
Category Archives: Edward
The Death of Dye
When my son was small (or was he ever small? I can’t recall…), he was not allowed to have red things. After one too many red Kool Aids or red Tummy Yummies, or red Popsicles that caused vomiting or other general illness, we decided that he was allergic to red dye, and so when we […]
The Adventures of a Field Trip Chaperone
Monday Night– Asked the bus driver if I could ride in with Edward the following morning; was told I had to ask the school about that.– Called the school to ask if I could ride the bus in; was told I had to ask the bus– Picked out farm-appropriate clothing for the both of us– […]
Tenor Single Dad
It is, as my mother-in-law likes to say any time we have parenting difficulties, payback. For years I spent a large amount of my time on the road, at auditions, rehearsals, voice lessons, shows, and who the heck knows what else. When my first child was born I was in graduate school, and the plan […]
The Last Post I Will Ever Write About My Son’s Health
This was a bad one. We were at Dick’s Sporting Goods looking for a backpack for my wife, who was leaving for grad school the next day. Everything was fine, and my son said “Let’s go look at bikes!” in an excited voice, and less than three seconds later he was on his face on […]
Is It Good or Bad When the ER Staff Remembers Your Name?
Last night, because there is something wrong with my brain, I sat down to play a level of Candy Crush at 10:30, and five minutes later it was 1:45 AM. I trudged up to bed, knowing that I was going to be tired in the morning, and this was confirmed a short time later when […]
The Hospital Parking Garage Attendant
Late last night, as I pulled out of the hospital parking garage and handed the attendant my ticket, along with the orange slip of paper that meant that my son had been admitted and I didn’t have to pay, I thought for a fleeting moment about how sad and tired I must have looked. I […]
A Free Cone Day Miracle
Yesterday, as I’m sure you all knew, was free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s. As a Vermonter, and the person who ate a pint of Phish Food every single night for dinner for at least one year of college, this is a sacred event. We do not miss Free Cone Day. And yet, my […]
No Voice For the Oppressed: The Oakledge Park Easter Egg Hunt
It is a little known fact that in The United States of America, 1% of the kids are in possession of 99% of the eggs. I think we can all agree that this is not a fair distribution of wealth. Just because you hunt a little harder for your eggs, doesn’t explain why some kids […]
Yes Officer, That’s My Son
Time to padlock the front door! Some of you may recall that a year or so ago we had a slight problem with small children escaping through the front door at very inconvenient times. We solved this issue with a lock installed on the inside of the door juuuuuust high enough so that Edward could […]