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My son recently decided to play cello and I couldn’t be happier about it. My memories of learning violin as a 5th grader (Max is in 4th) are of a lot of pain but also a lot of fun and camaraderie.  Feeling like a geek because I was in “orchestra” rather than with the kool [...]

On Easter day, my son and I skipped church and went snowboarding.  This season he’s shed the training wheels (it would be nice if ‘boards actually had them) and has begun to shred.  It’s been a lot of fun letting him lead.
On one run, while he was ahead of me, I treated myself to a [...]

In our home, my wife is the good cop and I’m the bad cop.  We naturally fell into these roles because of our personalities and it seems to work well for us.  Of course, I can be nice, too. But there’s nothing like having the power to shut down my kids quickly when I need [...]

Like this post at GeekDad, I’ve had conversations with my 9-year-old son about life’s deep questions.  Unlike Matt Blum at GeekDad, we haven’t talked about reality, existence, and perception.
We have talked about life and death and ethics.  The death conversations are particularly poignant. The prospect of losing any family member is heart-wrenching.  Rather than post [...]