Every morning, Ryan gets up, heads downstairs and turns on NHL Network. He watches classic games, documentaries, last night’s highlights. It doesn’t matter, as long as it’s hockey. Yesterday, on September 11, Ryan got up, headed downstairs, and turned on … the morning news. We didn’t ask him to. We didn’t tell him to. He […]
Read more "A New Perspective"I planned to write about our weekend today. About how Ryan became the loudest, most enthusiastic fan of both Riley’s travel soccer team and the New York Jets. If you’ve been following around here, you know this is a really. Big. Deal. But those stories can wait. This morning I followed my normal weekday routine. […]
Read more "It’s the Logistics"I can think of many ways to describe my son. He’s intelligent, loving, considerate, passionate, handsome, determined. But I’m not sure I could do a better job describing him than he did himself, in one of his first homework assignments of the new school year: Journal Entry #1 Write a description of yourself that would […]
Read more "Ryan, In His Own Words"Today is the first day of school. For Ryan, not yet 12, it is his 10th!?!? first day, including three years of special-needs and inclusion pre-K at one of the other elementary schools in our town. You would think it would be old hat for all of us by now, but it is most definitely […]
Read more "What the Bus Carries"Happy Labor Day everyone. Just a short post for today as I suspect most people are staying as far away from their typically connected-all-the-time lives as possible. I know I am. If you’ve been reading here for a while, you may have picked up that as much as I love hockey, I am also more […]
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Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 