“What’s Nathan been up to lately?,” asked my wife, Linda. Nathan is the son of my friend Matt, and since Matt and I had just had a couple of beers the other night (as we do nearly every Tuesday night), it seemed like a reasonable question. Unfortunately, I really had no idea. Listen To This Post Catch-up conversations regarding our respective kids, wives, jobs, pets, etc., are rarely on the table at these weekly events. Instead, and for reasons unclear, […] Click to read more…

Over the past few decades, the US Postal Service has become increasingly less interested in bringing me my mail. Twenty years ago, in our first house, our letter carrier came up the front walk and pushed the mail through a slot in the door. Ten years ago, in our next house, he/she stopped coming to the door and, instead, left the mail in a box at the end of the driveway. Today, the mail stops half a mile away, in […] Click to read more…

As of this morning, my house is officially on the market. (Please buy it.) We’ve lived here for nearly 11 years, and with our youngest child due to graduate from high school in June, my wife Linda and I have decided to downsize to something smaller. As you might imagine, we’ve spent the past several months getting our house “ready,” a term which, unfortunately, correlates highly with “expensive.” Listen To This Post Examples include, granite countertops for the master bath, […] Click to read more…