It’s been six years since I’ve been with my daughters, really with them. I’ve seen them at their high school graduations and school performances, but there’s been no contact in six long years. I send a couple emails every week, leave phone messages, drop off gifts for important occasions – all to let them know [...]

This past Easter I was skiing with my younger son.  As my middle-aged body gets sore from several hours on the slopes, I tend to indulge in the jacuzzi to ease some the aches I’ve earned each day.  On this past Easter Sunday, I ended up sharing the communal jacuzzi at the condo complex with [...]

The Forty- Year- Old- Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad by Joel Schwartzberg takes humor mixed with a dose of reality and transparency and wraps it all together in a package that any father can enjoy regardless of marital status. Arranged as a collection of 40 short essays, the book can be enjoyed both stretched [...]

The process of starting over after divorce is at a minimum difficult for most of us. For some of us, it can be downright impossible. I know this feeling first hand. While working through my own divorce, I struggled to shake the reminders of the relationship and continued to wonder if I would ever be [...]

November 17, 2000. The temperature is around 50 degrees and the sun feels warm despite the crisp fall air. Leaves from a young elm tree are scattered over the front yard… my front yard. My hand shakes as I unlock the door to our new house. The family is together; there is an atmosphere of [...]

Recently, my child came home with basic geometry homework. It covered simple concepts, shapes, lines, and angles. As I monitored his progress, he came to a question that asked him to draw parallel lines. He put pencil to paper, and freehanded two supposedly parallel lines. Pleased with his results, he moved on to the next [...]