Sam and I have a vivid memory of Daddy getting Dane ready for bed one night. All was going well and as normal when all of the sudden, Dane started hysterically crying. When we asked him what was wrong he repeatedly mumbled, “Daddy pooped in my room!!” between violent sobs. Confused, we asked Daddy what happened. […]
I was only in first grade when 9/11 happened back in 2001. There was a lot of paranoia about potential terrorist attacks in the weeks following 9/11. The Anthrax Attacks were a major headline, and daddy took them very seriously. Like absurdly seriously. If you don’t know what the Anthrax Attacks were, here’s a pretty […]
Though daddy may have been a PITA, I was apparently quite the little shit when I was little. I was always outsmarting Mom and Dad and finding brand new ways to get in trouble or annoy the living hell out of them. One example is tendency to always lock them out of my room. I’m not sure why […]
Daddy was always looking for new and creative ways to keep us occupied in the car on the ride to school every morning. From singing show tunes to telling stories about when we were little, he was nothing short of entertaining. But, hands down, the most fun we ever had during those years was when […]
We were walking in St. Christopher’s headed for extended day with Joelle in the lead. Joelle was not quite school age and was wearing a beautiful dress and stockings. In a hurry, she lost her step and fell forward. Fortunately, she was not hurt but her dress flew up and her stockings down. She never […]
Recently, I was walking through Harris Teeter with my roommates picking up some groceries for the apartment when I immediately smiled at the seltzer water display. Confused, my friends asked me why the hell I was staring at the bottles of bubbles. Of course, I had tell them why: because of Daddy! Daddy’s drink of […]
In honor of mom and dad’s upcoming 25th Wedding Anniversary, I decided to write about something that keeps me close and connected to Daddy to this day – the soundtrack he created for his wedding day, a la cassette tape. Since mom and dad’s wedding was a small one (only 32 guests), instead of having […]
Celebrating Jon 