Reading To You

by | Mar 20, 2013 | Building Skills, Play

We had been to the Harold Washington Library before, but you were too young remember.  So when we walked in from the State Street entrance, you looked around and your eyes trained up, especially when we walked into the round atrium that, as a space, feeds the soul. We...

Mondays With My Boy #20

by | Oct 8, 2012 | Play

Today the daycare had professional development for its staff, which means me and the boy spent the day together.  Though I’ve inserted two from Sunday’s book fair, here are a few pictures from the adventure.  We returned a rental from my road trip to see...

Carrying Bags and Boxes

by | Sep 27, 2012 | Play

The other week Bryce was given a gift by his Grannie.  He had been over her house, spending a few hours with her.  When I returned to pick him up, there was his usual luggage: his Thomas bag, some other bag, his car seat, the toilet top.  But there was a box at the...

Complicated Melody

by | Jun 14, 2012 | Play, Quotes

I think this song is wonderful and that it says much about manhood, not to mention the title once served as my wife’s best explanation of...