I’m a sap. I admit it. You need evidence? The song “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol always makes me cry. The song is about, I suspect, young love. About wanting to put yourself out there and tell someone how you feel about them but being afraid to do so. But that’s not what it means […]
Read more "Chasing Cars"This morning, I made my train by about 45 seconds, after a twenty-minute walk. In other words, I timed it perfectly. When I get off the train on which I am writing this post, I will walk uptown in New York, mostly on the edge of the streets, because, well, the sidewalks just move too […]
Read more "Island Time"This blog, and, not so coincidentally, my family have been on vacation. We’re just back from another glorious week spent in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. We first went there in 2011, searching for a vacation spot that worked for our family. We found one, and a lot more. In four short years, the “OBX” has […]
Read more "Life, Viewed Through a Repetitive Lens"Watching Ryan at hockey practice one night earlier this week, I came to a realization. If I had the same drive, desire to improve, and willingness to work that he now shows, I might have been a much better hockey player. In the last year, Ryan has begun to take his hockey much more seriously. […]
Read more "Stickhandling in Place"Riley would have been up for the trip. Had Ryan been on board, we might well have spent much of Sunday in the car. But when we floated the idea at breakfast, he was not having it. It’s not that he has an aversion to car trips, he’s actually quite good despite the lack of […]
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Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 