Tales from a Mid-Lifer

Category: Parenting

  • The Teen Boys Sleepover

    Half of my 16 year-old son’s hockey team slept over last week.  With one eye on Iron Man 2 and the other checking their Instagram feed, they laid throughout the family room, with potato chips and soda bottles strewn everywhere.  Unlike when my daughters’ have girlfriends sleep over, I was…

  • Post Vacation Reality Check

    I had just survived a 22-hour car ride home with three teenagers in the backseat.  My bottom surely expanded another two inches from the countless hours of idleness.  Despite these truths and the annoying grunting by my family as they finally exited the minivan, I was mentally renewed, well-rested and…

  • Boston.

    Last year on September 11th, my 14-year old daughter was finally mature enough to understand what had transpired in 2001.  After an intense Social Studies class where they discussed 9/11, she arrived home, bombarding me with questions and for two solid days (and nights), she pondered, questioned, expressed anger, perplexity,…