I Don’t Want to be the Mom

Last Summer Esposa and I took Hijo to the park. He quickly found a group of kids playing and joined them. As we observed the play, it appeared to be some sort of hybrid game of tag and house. While I watched, I heard a girl yell out in an exasperated voice “I don’t want […]

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Waiting with Significance

I have a friend who had been looking to buy a new (to him) bike for months. I was close enough to the situation to hear most of the ups and downs. I saw many listings of potential bikes he’d come across on Craigslist and elsewhere. Finally after about six months of searching he found […]

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The Amazing Jump

Hijo recently turned five years old. Five is a big deal. He’s no longer an infant fully dependent on us. Or a toddler mostly dependent on us. And he’s quickly on his way to no longer even being a preschooler, but a full-fledged kindergartener. As he turned five, I wanted to do something significant to […]

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