"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, high above the chimney tops. That's where you'll find me."- from Somewhere Over th...

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well." -John D. Rockefeller As part of our Summer Bucket List, aka t...

"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln This summer, I find myself ...

"Because if that little kid likes me, how bad could I be?" - Wreck-It Ralph Father's Day. I don't ask for much. I don...

I often wonder, when is it we begin to lose our imagination? When do we stop dreaming the impossible, and start to stare cold hard reality ...

I never skied growing up. My first time on skis was in high school, and I was so terrible that I almost killed myself and several other peo...

I missed Valentine's Day this year. That's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, and it was not due to any fault or ignoranc...

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison It seems every day, Peanut will say...

I'm scurrying around the kitchen preparing dinner. Peanut beckons me from the playroom. "Daddy, will you please play with me?...

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." -Judy Garland We all have a job...

Words can injure. We all know this. Like me, I am sure you've been on both the giving and receiving ends of nasty language, spoken or w...

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries...

" Dolphin Tale " (2011/Rated PG) Peanut is definitely my daughter. Not that there was any doubt. We have matching big toes, afte...

I am a feet-on-the-ground kind of guy. But when faced with a death-defying stunt that would force me to push my limits, overcome my fears, a...

If I could do it all over again, I would play little league baseball. You would think a guy like me with a love of the game like mine would...

I came down with a stubborn case of nostalgia this summer. Not helping matters, one night I was looking through baby pictures. (I needed one...

"It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain..." -Dorothy i...

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." -Robert Fulghum  It's truly a...

"So you're scared and you're thinking that maybe we ain't that young anymore. Show a little faith there's magic in the...

Peanut and I were collecting shells on the beach earlier this month on her self-proclaimed " best day ever ." As I picked up a she...