Category: Daddy Issues
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Bruce and the blessings of compromise on a Tuesday night
Bruce Springsteen was talking about compromise last night. Adult compromise, as viewed by the kids startled to first discover Mom and Dad had hopes and dreams. The world takes some of those away. You choose to let go of others. These aren’t easy choices. What the kids don’t see, Bruce said, are “the blessings of compromise.” […]
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Glitter sucks: A Metro Parent column
For Metro Parent this month, I examined glitter. To wit: Glitter was the 11th Egyptian plague, and Dante’s 10th circle. The Inuit have many words for snow, but only one for glitter, and it’s unprintable. That’s right. Glitter was 72 percent of disco (the rest was some combination of ABBA, Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, […]
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The Grinch 2.0
So the grumpy green guy comes down from on high, tries to steal every last piece of Christmas, has a heart-enlarging change of heart, returns all the trappings and trimmings and gets invited to dinner by very people he robbed? I have never – not for one second – believed the Whos were actually cool […]
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My Little Brony
Excerpted from last week’s Ryan White & Associates newsletter. Give or take, it goes out every week. The associates (there are no associates) are playing catch up after a fantastic Sunday night. To sign up for the newsletter, click. I’m Shining Armor. Sometimes the kiddo is Cadance. Other times she’s Princess Celestia, or Twilight Sparkle. But […]
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If You Take a 4 year old to see Lucinda Williams at the zoo
If you take a 4 year old to see Lucinda Williams at the zoo, she’s going to want to see the animals first. When you take her to see the animals, she’s going to decide that, no, she wants dinner first. After she eats, she’s going to need to go the bathroom. When you take her […]
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