I’ll get the disclaimers out of the way first. 1.) Teachers are incredible. They have undertaken one of the most difficult, thankless jobs in the world. Teachers should be making more money than...
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(Buckle up. This is going to go longer than the na-na-na-nas at the end of “Hey Jude.”) At the beginning of this year, when Laura and I went full-in and spent a massive chunk of our hard-earned pay...
Earlier this week I got an email from the dad of a player I coached back in 2015. The subject was “Thank you for being Philip’s best coach” which made me think, oh that’s nice...
I spent many a Father’s Day on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It always turned out to be the time that my family would vacation there. We did it for more than three straight decades...
APRIL 28, 2023. WHITEHALL, PENNSYLVANIA. A week after the massive explosion of SpaceX’s gigantic rocket named Spaceship exploded over the Gulf of Mexico, the reclusive Old Fart who lives down...
I talk about my family, the Beedle side, a lot in this space. And why not? They’re pretty great and hard to ignore. And it is my blog after all. Last week I had a reminder of how remarkable the other...
I had great plans for my deck, so I had a big one built. Besides the deck I needed to install a sliding door where the windows used to be. Oh, and Mr. Deck Guy, as long as you’re here, do you do...
Edit Timeline of Scene 5 2022 is almost gone. I’m not here to assess it. It walked in, all full of hope, then did its thing: did some good, then did its damage. And now its leaving. It’s a thing we...
In case you’ve wondered where I’ve been lately.
So, there’s this party tomorrow… Any parent knows the one great truth about being a mom or dad: If your kid is happy, you are happy. And right now, Laura and I are overjoyed. From...
My former co-worker and great friend, Wayne Persing, has retired. Wayne and I worked alongside each other at my old job at First Generation for eleven years. When I arrived, Wayne commandeered the...
As I remember it, I was driving north on I-287 in New Jersey, going to work, and it was a spectacular day … similar to a couple of the days we had this week … just perfect weather. I was listening to...
In another life I was a cook at a restaurant in Allentown called Murphy’s—a middling restaurant masquerading as a high-class establishment. (I worked in the kitchen. I saw the shady things that...
You read that right, fearless reader. I come to you, mere weeks after Punk Party was released to online booksellers, to ask one last giant favor of anyone who has purchased it, and...
Click! Tap! P.S. The author knows when to use “it’s” and when to use “its.” Honest he does. It just doesn’t appear that way in one particular stitch in this...
It is 5:15AM. Whitehall Pennsylvania is quiet. Snow blankets the ground, as it has for most of the winter. There is no traffic, car or foot. I suppose I might hear the trucks lumbering down MacArthur...
I think I’ve just about got this figured out. If you are a lowly one-man-band, publishing on-line, you must wait until the almighty Amazon (trademark; registration mark; official branding; all...
It is one year since my family lost our mother. Her loss, after an incredibly full and wonderfully lived life, is made even more impactful to me — one year later — by what transpired in the year...
This self-publishing undertaking of mine has been an adventure. I did my research, made a few mistakes, learned a lot about how long the process actually takes, and—shockingly—made a few correct...
January 8. Well, 2021 has had an unfortunate beginning, hasn’t it? In an attempt to bring a bit of fun into an exasperating last couple of days, I have decided not to let the madness in our nation’s...