The Homework Struggle

April 28 will mark one year since Cydney started preschool. My first post on this blog was titled “I Wasn’t Ready,” in which I lamented about my then eighteen month old daughter starting daycare that ended with me saying “That first day is going to be a bitch.” (Looking back at that first post made […]

Speed Kills

Yesterday evening I picked my nephew up from karate class. As we were walking to the car, we were talking about him possibly playing soccer next fall. I asked him how was he going to have time to play soccer, football, karate class and school. He replied “Because a boy’s motto is speed.” Thinking about […]

Basketball

Before I caught the music bug, I played basketball for a good part of my childhood. I played in a couple of leagues and school teams during the school year and tournaments during the summer until I got to high school from second to eighth grade. Whenever I had a free moment, I wanted to […]