“All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.”
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My father died last year, on April 1st. He’s the sort of guy who would’ve had something funny to say about that. Something along the lines of “Well, folks, I guess the joke’s on me,” or “Hey, quit crying! It’s April Fool’s Day!”
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The only reason I feel remotely qualified to write any of the following is because I have been a dipshit parent. On so many occasions.
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When friends new to marriage ask for advice, I often say this: “When in doubt, have sex.” I believe it, too.
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After two decades of a career that fit the “grownup” bill, I’ve finally figured out how not to box myself in. I’ve cast off the old reliable shoulds and plunged headlong into the unpredictable what-ifs and why-the-hell-nots.
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I think it’s safe to say that sex is an important part of any healthy marriage, and that it’s worth you and your spouse going out of your way to make sure it happens often.
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Why did millions of people travel thousands upon thousands of miles to this city – and to countless others around the world – on this day, in this fledgling new year? Without question, to exercise our right to speak our minds and express our hearts.
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Kids are perpetually curious in the most quirky, insightful, and hilarious ways. They see the world with such stunning clarity. It’s as though the observational clockwork of their minds is more refined than ours, more pliant, less worn into predictable grooves.
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Welcome to one of the inescapable truths of parenthood: What seems is not what ends up being so. What’s more, the distance between flirting and actual sex might as well be a thousand miles of impassable wasteland.
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A few months ago, I spent an entire morning in my son’s bedroom repairing and repositioning half a dozen Lego creations into a pleasing arrangement on a set of shelves solely dedicated for the purpose.
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When I think back to childhood Christmases, my best memories have nothing to do with the presents I received and everything to do with the experiences I shared with my family in the days leading up to December 25th.
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Did you know that most marriages fail? Split up or not, only three in 10 unions remain healthy, according to Ty Tashiro, author of “The Science of Happily Ever After.” Three in 10! Those are some tough odds.
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Sometimes it’s hard to keep in touch with the person you married. This is true even though you may see – even interact with! – your dearly beloved every single day of the year.
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Kid President Robby Novak was invited to visit President Obama in the Oval Office when he was nine years old. Indisputably the story of a boy’s dream come true, their time together also underscored President Obama’s core beliefs as they pertain to good governance and leadership.
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Most of us can agree that being embarrassed by our parents is simply part of being a kid. This also means that embarrassing our kids is part of being a parent. Don’t think you can avoid it.
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I recently attended a bachelorette party for a friend some years my junior. Five years my junior, I think. Or maybe eight-ish. The years in between have become less significant as we’ve grown older. But the fact remains that, as far as marriage is concerned, she’s a babe in the nuptial wood and I am a tween.
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Here’s a Fact. Our kids interrupt us. All the time, under any circumstance. It’s as though we entered an obstacle course on the day our children were born – one that ends maybe never.
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I am a shelf-stable slab of bologna smashed between my kids and my parents, my work and my family, desire and ease, youth and old age. And someone forgot the French’s.
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