Quotes from the Road

“Is Pedro there?” Perfect storms happen all the time in life, we just don’t appreciate them the way we should. Take a minute and think about your best friends.* *I’m waiting a minute for you to think about them How did you meet? Was it intentional? Did you see this kid at school, and they were so awesome that you laid out a plan where you were all, “I’ve got to meet that guy – he’s so awesome. Maybe we can be best friends.” Chances are, unless you...

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to put this post together. It’s long and wandering, and, I hope, has just a touch of magic. I think I’ve alluded to it before, but my daughter and I read the Harry Potter books together. Not, together, like, I sat on her bed and read them while she listened; and not together, like, I had a copy and she had a copy and we sat on couches in the living room doing synchronized reading. Together, like, we read through them at approximately the same...

The Giant Buggy Dilemma

I may one day write a post entitled “the Dilemma Dilemma” since “dilemma” is one of the hardest words in the language for me to spell. But, “the Dilemma Dilemma” wouldn’t really be a dilemma at all. Nonetheless. Where I live, the supermarket of choice is Publix. We’ve shopped at Publix since I can remember (30 years or so?). I have family that works for the company. Their corporate headquarters is 15 minutes from the house. They’re both our...

Roberto Clemente and my kids

I don’t remember where we were, but I remember that we were driving. My parents had a Pontiac Parisienne, a tan one* that was the nicest car I’d ever ridden in. *Every car we had, from my earliest memory until I was in high school, was some iteration of brown – the Parisienne, a Bronco II, a Maverick, and a Jeep Cherokee. In fact, my dad currently has a tan Blazer. None of this is important, but I thought it was an interesting observation*. *I might should change my definition of...