My birthday was this past weekend but you’d never have known it. My original plans for this past weekend was to be in Charlotte to for the Panthers game on Saturday. But open-heart surgery for my mom changed those plans. On Thursday Amy and I took a bus up to New York. At 5:00 a.m. [...]
Aug 162011
Dec 022010
It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post. Part of the lapse is because I had family visiting from out of town for up to ten days. As usual my whole family traveled to Charlotte for Thanksgiving. This year Amy brought her boyfriend Steve too. After the Thanksgiving weekend my mom stayed a [...]
Apr 072010
Wednesday began by saying goodbye to Amy. In the morning my mom drove Amy to the airport and she flew back to Washington DC. In the afternoon we visited Sugar Sand Park in Boynton Beach, as we do every year. This place is great for kids. It has a hands-on children’s science explorium, a huge [...]
Apr 052010
On Sunday Maegan, Darah, and I flew to South Florida to visit my mother in Boynton Beach. Patty did not come with us because her school’s spring break didn’t coincide with the CMS spring break. This was the first time that Darah would be away from Patty, and vice versa. This entire vacation almost didn’t [...]
Aug 082009
My mom is visiting us this week. Soon after she arrived we had bad storms roll through and several trees throughout the neighborhood snapped in the heavy winds, including one of the few trees on our property. We also lost power for most of the night and so we all just sat around and talked [...]
Nov 302008
Every year my mother and sister travel to Charlotte for Thanksgiving. That’s one tradition. Another tradition we have is to always see an animated film the day after Thanksgiving. (I don’t even know the last non-animated film I saw in a theater.) This year we saw Bolt. Good movie, two thumbs up. But we didn’t [...]
May 202008
People are often surprised when I tell them that I grew up just 22 miles from New York City (an easy train ride) yet I’ve never been to Yankee Stadium. That area of the Bronx isn’t exactly kid-friendly, but it was down-right dangerous when I was growing up in the 70′s and 80′s. Not that [...]
Feb 282008
On Friday I begin my new job with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, continuing the long family tradition of careers in the field of education. My grandfather was a New York City public school teacher for 15 years, and then a Principal for 20 years. My mother was a teacher for 16 years, primarily for New York City [...]
Feb 082008
Yesterday my mother was the victim of a pick-pocket. She realized that her wallet had been stolen within minutes but before the credit card companies could terminate the accounts, the thieves (we assume more than one because they split up to use multiple cards quickly) had racked up hundreds of dollars worth of charges on [...]
