We're just weeks away from a new NFL season (which is just a euphamism for saying we're weeks away from me having an excuse to go hang out at a bar with other daddies and drink ourselves silly, while eating greasy wings and watching grown men smash into each other) and I can't wait. Even Continue Reading

I've always loved cartoons. Still do in fact. But as a kid growing up in the '80s, there was nothing, absolutely nothing better than grabbing a big ol' bowl of Cap'n Crunch cereal, drowning it in milk and plopping yourself in front of the big color TV bright and early each and every Saturday morning. Continue Reading

Before I got engaged, I knew exactly the type of ring to buy. No I wasn't psychic, nor an ego-maniacal pushy boyfriend. Uh uh. Simple ring, pear shaped diamond in a size 7. That had been ingraned in my head for weeks, months, almost years I'd say, by my college girlfriend. Yeah we had talked Continue Reading

I've always loved music. Not just listening to it ('80s hair bands being the best, of course), but playing it. It all started for me in 4th grade when I joined the school band and took up playing the saxophone. I have no clue why I picked the sax, but I was going into the Continue Reading

Y'know, there are a lot of songs about Mondays. Of course, The Mamas & The Papas had our post title "Monday Monday." The Boomtown Rats had "I Don't Like Mondays." And my all-time favorite (and only happy Monday-based song I know), the Bangles' "Manic Monday." Great. Now I'm thinking back to high school and Susanna Continue Reading

600 bonus points to the first blogger who can name the movie this post's title is from... (I'm looking at you, Tiny, ya hear me?) So I've won a pair of blogging awards recently (okay a little while back) and just haven't gotten around to posting about them. Figured it was time and my apologies Continue Reading

Books rule. I really used to be a voracious (see the big words I learned from reading?) reader when I was a kid. Sure I devoured comic books left and right, but I also loved reading about Encyclopedia Brown, Danny Dunn, anything and everything Roald Dahl put out, the whole Narnia thing, Alfred Hitchcock's 3 Continue Reading

Today's trip back in time is dedicated to my new buddy Tish. And no, she didn't pay me to say that. Well, not much anyways... Growing up in the suburbs of New York, we took lots of day trips down to Manhattan. I definitely remember visiting the Statue of Liberty and I think we actually Continue Reading

Yeah, yeah, the kids aren't even back at school, football season hasn't started yet (don't remind me) and the apple orchards are still a good month away from getting trounced by families with long sticks. But as we've learned the hard way, it's never too early to start hunting for Halloween costumes! We got a Continue Reading

My kids love going clothes shopping. No, they don't really care about new shirts or pants or jackets or socks (Well, does anyone really get excited by socks? Yeah, didn't think so...) or hats, etc. No, what they love is when me and their mommy are looking for new clothes and the two of them Continue Reading