I shouldn’t laugh, but my dog started wearing diapers recently. Oh, who am I kidding?! After 56 dog years of defiance and obnoxious barking coupled with a questionable amount of occasionally bei...
Eventually we all reach an age where birthdays, quite frankly, just aren’t all that exciting anymore. For me, apparently it’s this one – ripe, old “37” … which i...
Parenting changes you. And not just by turning things like sleeping in on the weekend and playing video games with every iota of your waking free time into distant memories, but also in more direct wa...
I always thought that kidney stones were something that old people got, like offers for life insurance and senior discounts at those disgusting buffet restaurants where the only way anyone c...
One shouldn’t really need a mountain sherpa and a week’s worth of rations when they’re ready to go to bed, but sitting here atop my pillow-topped perch looking down over the bustlin...
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I happen to have it on good authority that I may, in fact, be getting older… I’m no more happy about it than you are, but the signs around me are getting harder...
Normally I'm not really even one for "practical gifts" because I feel like if I really need a new pair of socks, I'd much rather just go buy them myself than waste valuable birthday merriment unwrappi...
It’s sometimes a wonder I ever have anything to write about here at all because far too often it seems like my brain probably more closely resembles a sieve than a sponge, with ideas flowing through...
Yep, the rumors you’ve heard are correct – the birthday of yours truly is, in fact, coming up just next week, but before you break out the party poppers and strike up the band, I think it’s impo...