Wordful Wednesday: Our Friday Night Lights

Around these parts, football and Fridays go together like hot BBQ and cold beer at a tailgate party. And after three years of watching my...

– Sep 2, 2009

Invasion of the Personality Snatchers… Or, Hurray, The Teenager is Here

By NICK CHILESIt is something we parents can't help. We look at our children, at their personality quirks and quivers, and we can't help playing...

– Jul 21, 2009

Proof That The Boy Was Listening To The Friendship Lecture: Introducing Chad and Eddie

It would have been quite easy for the boy to surround himself with fools. Teenagers, after all, are experts at such things you know, dragging...

– Jun 24, 2009

Teenage Car Traumas: A Dad Loses Control

By NICK CHILES Nobody told me it would be like this. Sure, I knew that when my teenage son got his license and we put...

– Jun 22, 2009

What Bad Knees, Good Drugs, and Teenagers Are Made Of

So the boy jacked up his knee doing some ungodly, torturous exercises called the “clean and jerk,” and “squats” in his weight-lifting class, and more...

– May 12, 2009
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