Category: The Boy

Back On The Field. With A Vengeance. {Sponsored}

Once upon a time my son Josh used to play soccer. He loved it.   Until he didn’t love it so much anymore. Fine, we thought, because he has moved on to his next exciting activity — hockey. He loved it. Until he didn’t love it so much anymore. Fine,…

I Feel Lucky. Punk.

Remember that ’80s show Out Of This World with the girl who was a half alien and had that weird cube-like contraption that she talked to and could stop time with her fingers? Well, the ’80s were a really weird time, for sure, but that superpower? That’s one that I’d…

He Shall Now Be Called…McGuffey

So, the new thing around here is that my 11-year-old baby boy has his own cell phone. He’s still very much in the “why on earth do I even need this thing?” phase. (Boy thing?) This is exactly the opposite of his older sister, who wrote us lengthy novellas and left…