This is for all you gentlemen out there: You are going to a wedding and you want to dress first-rate. I’m here to assist you.

Balloons float happily above our mailbox. They announce, “It’s a Boy.” Some of our neighbors will certainly be scratching their heads. The crib is assembled and is in your room. We only ever...

I’m on the rails-to-trails path that winds around the township. Halfway into a long walk, I’ve worked up a good sweat on a hot morning. These days I’ve even stopped wearing ear buds to ease...

This is the way to kick-off summer: A couple of friends spending a glorious Friday afternoon being treated to a gourmet lunch by my long-time compatriot, “The Small Town Chef,” Wayne...

I found an old document of Dad’s called “Cities Visited.” It listed all the cities around the world he’d visited and the years he was there. I immediately thought, “This needs...

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...

(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...

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...