I have been assigned a great job in life – navigating three sons to adulthood. These wild, smelly rascals are now 14, 12 and 9 years old. Part of preparing them to go out into the world is teaching them how to explore the inventor in them. When each of them got to about year [...]

The first game I remember playing with my Granddad is checkers. I think the reason it sticks out in my mind after 33 years is that I remember him focusing 100% on me. When I played this old-school game of strategy with my dad’s dad he gave me all his attention for as long as [...]

I had some of the best medicine this afternoon – belly laughing with my three sons. After collecting Alex, Caleb and Noah to the sofa, goofing in front of the laptop commenced. For about 10 minutes we snapped image after image with PhotoBooth on my macbook. Who knew that we could bring back the old [...]

Wrestling after dinner is a favorite activity in my house. I have three sons and they enjoy testing their strength and strategy against dad.  As they have grown older they have become much better at overcoming me with their cleverness.  When they were younger, I was able to simply keep them at bay with one [...]