Payback or What I Want From My Kids Parenting can be a thankless job. Sure we get Mother’s and Father’s Days, and every once in a while they’ll make us some little craft or art project out of the blue, but for the most part parenting is a one-way street. We [...]
Here's the ironic thing about love, sex, marriage, and childbirth: Desire leads to pursuit. Pursuit leads to romance. Romance leads to love. Love leads to sex. Sex leads to children. Children lead to endless thwarted opportunities for their parents to engage in the very activity that brought them into the world to begin with. [...]
Before we go any further, it would probably be best to address the curly-haired elephant in the room. As I mentioned on his profile, Cray-Cray was diagnosed with autism at around two years of age. Occasionally when we mention this to people we've just met, his mother and I get [...]
Holmes and Watson. Batman and Robin. Riggs and Murtaugh. Ahab and Moby Dick. Our culture is rife with duos who are only at their best (or worst) when together. Duos so intertwined that it is inconceivable to think of one without the other. In that spirit, where you find Cray-Cray [...]
There are those that say parenting is an adventure. Those people are wrong. Parenting is a war, a never-ending conflict of wills, strategy, and endurance. It is a war that unfortunately, I more often than not find myself on the losing side of. But I'm not bitter. "You're so funny", [...]
Hi. How are you doing today? Well, I hope. Listen, we need to have a talk. It's come to my attention that you are a young, responsible, loving individual(s) that has taken on the responsibility of pet ownership. I can only imagine how excited you were the first time [...]
Salutations. Five years ago, I took on the position of a humble valet/jungle gym/plaything to the Great Lord Cray-Cray (seen above, on your left). In preparation for the job, I read many books, watched many videos, and interviewed other experienced servants who had maintained similar positions over the years. Prior to the [...]
