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 […]
Read more "Well, There Was This"Note: I posted about this on the blog’s Facebook page and Twitter account the other day, but it was too fun not to share. Apologies to those that have already seen/heard the clip. “I’m bored!” “But what can I do?” No parent wants to here those phrases from their kids. Especially not when you’re trying […]
Read more "A New Cure for Boredom"The biggest challenge between our family and a successful vacation is keeping Ryan occupied. We bring along enough comforts of home — laptop, Hockey Guys — for him to keep a sense of routine, but we also don’t want him spending an entire vacation engaged in these solitary activities. So we limit his time with […]
Read more "Vacation, Part Two – Let the Games Begin"This morning, I shaved and put on shoes of the non-flip flop variety for the first time in 10 days. I was not happy about either of these developments. This morning, it’s back to the routine, back to the morning commute, back to reality. Vacation is over. I was happy, thrilled even, to return from […]
Read more "Vacation, Part One – Going Home"I have been trying to get Ryan to watch the movie Miracle, well, forever. As a hockey-loving eight-year-old in 1980, the Miracle On Ice was an amazing thing for me to experience. I didn’t understand the geopolitics that amplified the importance of the event well beyond sports. All I knew was that the USA was […]
Read more "Do You Believe in Miracles? Yes!"
Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 