Tonight I said good-bye to my oldest son Stephen. Tomorrow he leaves for Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he will be until June 4th. He's doing his spring term at Dartmouth down in Argentina. He will be living with a host family, taking 3 classes, and speaking nothing but Spanish. I know we don't see much of each other even when he's on campus here in New Hampshire, but he's always just more than an Continue Reading...
Moving Day Part Two
As the winter wears on and time passes without my two oldest boys around, I think about them, and I miss them. I think back to times we have spent together. I also think back and re-visit some of the times we had the chance to say good-bye. This is a little note I wrote in September 2011. This was my second moving day and it was completely different from the first one. Steve and I drove across Continue Reading...
Cross country poem and photos
I woke up this morning to an email from my son Ryan who is out in California following his dream of playing baseball. He is a freshman at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA. Of course being three hours behind us, I don't see some of his evening emails until the following day. Anyway, Theodore was up before 6am, so I brought him downstairs with me to get our day started. Continue Reading...