Hello, and good morning. This is Tenor Dad, reporting live from the past. Thanks to your local WFTR (news and weather on the 23s!) station’s new chrono upgrades, I have made it back here to the year 2015, or, as we all know it, the good old days. We were all younger, healthier, had more […]
Category Archives: Life
The Trouble With Parents and Experts
As a baby, we rely on our parents for everything. As a toddler we trust that they are infallible. When we go off to school we transfer this invulnerability of thought to our teachers as our parents become imperfect morons. Then we turn into teenagers and our teachers are just as dumb as our parents. […]
My Adulthood is All Grown Up
Today is my thirty-sixth birthday. I suppose in the traditional and literal sense, it means that I was born 36 years ago today, but it also means that it has now been eighteen years since my eighteenth birthday. I have been an “adult” for eighteen years. My adulthood is all grown up. When my adulthood […]
Life. It’s the Worst.
Yes, yes, I know. Do not be discouraged. Life is also the best sometimes too. And I agree. But right now, it is the worst. I am the worst. Everything is the worst. Yesterday afternoon, as I was yelling at my son to put his boots on, he had a seizure. We were running late […]
Has the Worst Day of Your Life Already Happened?
My mind was wandering the other day, as it is wont to do, and I started thinking about the worst day of my life. Or rather, whether or not it has already happened. For years I could easily pinpoint the worst day of my life, or at least the worst moment, but then it changed […]
Driving Home From an Audition
Man. What happened to all the Twizzlers? I wish there were more in the bag and less in my stomach. I’m not feeling sick or anything, I just wish I wasn’t so far along in the process of eating the entire bag. Having Twizzlers in my stomach is not the good part. The good part […]
Being Cool Sounds Fun
I am not now, nor have I ever been, cool. But it sounds like it would be fun. I’d love to try it out. I see cool people from time to time, and they always seem to be having fun, whether they are starting jukeboxes with their fists, simply laughing with friends in a devil-may-care […]