My Sweets

Rebekah is 15 today. My Sweets. The girl who started out at 5-lbs, 6-oz is now 5’6″ tall. She’s bright, smart, different, compassionate and loves to smile.  But I’m her [...]

12-28-14 Today I celebrate 18 years of marriage with my wife Julie. 18 years of memories: In 1996, we made a promise In 1997, we were blessed with the best gift we never knew we wanted. Joseph [...]

“Just admit what you did. Come on, it will be alright… just admit what you did.” Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) speaks these words as he waits for the justification he needs before [...]

This picture sits on the side table located in my daughter Rebekah’s bedroom. It’s a picture of her and me at the hospital probably minutes after she was born. I love this photo of [...]

I have been having pain in my upper back for weeks now. Just inside the left shoulder blade. The knot is quite big and it sends pain to my elbow. Now I am not a doctor, or a chiropractor but I do [...]

According to my daughter Rebekah, I’m famous. I’m famous because Google said so. She told me that on the last day of school she did a Google search on me, and since I came up first [...]

My kids are funny. They ask questions. A shit ton of questions. I love that they are so inquisitive, but there is one set of questions they ask that I rather they didn’t ask as much. [...]

I used to play with magnets and their wonderful Star Wars force like powers. A quick slide across the table and I was Yoda moving magnets without touching them. “Mmm, move a magnet with my [...]

I went running today with my daughter Rebekah. Started my training for my first ever 5k that I will run this summer. I signed up a couple months ago and am looking forward to it. I will run the [...]

For years now I have been wearing silly bands on my left wrist. I wear them because my daughter Rebekah gave them to me. I can tell it makes her glow inside to know that I do. Every so often [...]