“Without heroes,” wrote the great 20th Century American Jewish author Bernard Malamud, “we are all plain people, and don’t know how far we can go.” As the father of a nine-month-old, it is my sincerest hope that my daughter always […]
Fly Higher Than the Beagle:
Why Everyone Loves Snoopy
This might be the 40th anniversary of man’s first lunar landing but, if the truth be told, it was a beagle who beat Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon’s surface some four months earlier. Huh? A worldwide audience […]
Fantasy Baseball: Living the Dream
Like “Dr. Archibald ‘Moonlight’ Graham,” the character Burt Lancaster memorably played in Field of Dreams, I have always wanted to get a turn at bat in the major leagues. Even when I was playing Little League baseball, I dreamed about […]
The Promise of Spring
Ernie Banks once told the New York Times, “Spring training means flowers, people, coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism, and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.” I would submit that, with a six-month old in the […]
Binkie Vocabulary
People who have built their families through adoption, like my wife and I, know how important it is to use the right words, especially when you’re attempting to use positive adoptive language. Birthparents make an adoption plan or choose adoption. […]