This coming summer Kimmy will follow in the steps of her big sister by taking a language program in France. The organization that we are…
Our eldest is off to Brussels for a semester of study abroad. Although she has traveled to foreign countries on her own in the past,…
I’ve heard it many times in the past that performing at the Carnegie Hall in New York always features among the major highlights of a…
It is a bit disorienting when one day your youngest child is 3 months old, and then a few days later, your eldest hits 16…
I am re-learning a well-forgotten language nowadays. It manages to convey a vast range of thoughts and emotions via usage of just a few syllables…
When family with children is going to visit relatives who live about an hour’s drive away, Dad’s responsibilities do not really start until around the…
Admit it, all of my one-post-a-week schedule aside, you keep coming back to this blog because you expect pearls of wisdom from me that you…
Children of the age of technology acquire the weirdest mannerisms. Becky, for instance, has gotten into a habit of saying “LOL” when she is amused,…
My eldest daughter seems to be the primary source of material for my blog lately. At her request, I am putting up another of her…
It occurred to me that my girls now possess skates signed not only by the Olympic silver medalists, but an Olympic champion as well. Becky…
I wanted to put up another video of Becky, this one of her recent number at the school Performance Showcase, but I can’t make the…
I don’t want to provide the name of this little performance out of concern for what type of future Google searches it may attract. You’ll…
My eldest daughter reminded me that I promised to put her latest artistic achievement up on my blog. That promise is about two months overdue…
Kimmy had an advance birthday party last Saturday (we had a bit of a scheduling problem with our customary approach of celebrating after the date,…
In lieu of any other content that I can provide at the moment, here is a recent masterpiece from my budding artist offspring, a music-video-ish…
The little conversation about Juno reminded me of something that I wanted to post here on the blog. Becky is always on the lookout for…
Kimmy has been asking Natasha to arrange for a “fun” birthday party for her this year (it’s still two months away, but it’s never too…
Becky’s history curriculum this year includes World War I, and as part of her coursework, she was supposed to imagine herself as a Wilfred Owen…
Kimmy and I cuddled on the couch watching Stardust the other night, when my 8-year-old suddenly said: “Daddy, you’re the warmest person in the world!”…
One of the gifts that Becky received this year for her birthday was a recording studio experience (idea by Mom, funding by Grandma and Grandpa).…