Today I did something crazy. Probably the craziest thing I’ve ever done. Ever.
I took four kids on a four hour road trip.
I know what you’re thinking. Why the hell would I do that? Who would do such an insane thing? Are there straight jackets strong enough to contain me?
Keaton is going to spend the next [...]

It’s pouring down rain as I write this. And there is a tornado warning. The sirens went off and we forced the kids to pile in to Keaton and Spencer’s room. Their room is about half the basement so it’s far from a small room. However, somehow they still find it necessary to argue and [...]

It rained yesterday. And that’s a complete understatement. It didn’t just rain. It poured. I considered building an arc. A guy I work with didn’t have an umbrella [not that it would have helped since it was raining sideways]. When he walked in to the office he could have literally wrung out his clothing and [...]

It’s been quite a while since I read anything fiction. I love fiction, but recently all my reading has been about how to get kids to listen, or how to understand teenagers [I've still got a lot of reading to do on that one] or how to design your very own website with just a [...]