My daughter started third grade today. I have a tradition here of writing a post about the first day of school each year. I don’t want to break tradition, so here goes. The first thing I’d like to report is that I’m getting a little better at this first day of school thing. I actually…
I don’t use air conditioning in my house. The only time in my life I air conditioned my home was while I was married. It wasn’t really my choice. I didn’t have air conditioning as a kid, in college, or when I moved out on my own. And since my divorce, I have not used…
Anyone who knows me, even a little bit, knows that I hate the summer. It’s three months of uncomfortable weather, uncomfortable clothes, difficulty sleeping and never being properly dry. It’s miserable. But that’s not really what I want to talk about. It’s too obvious. What I want to talk about is how weird it is…
Summer officially started today. While I know I will probably complain a lot during the next three months, I wanted to get as much out of the way as I could at the very beginning. So, let me count the ways in which summer is the worst season by far. Out of four seasons, it…
