Today Jim shares some musings on, well, shit… I’m just never gonna be okay with my children’s generation (twenty somethings) telling me that something is “the shit.” Good music, good pot, good places and people who are highly skilled are … Continue reading →

Today’s GAL is a guest blog from the very talented Matt Chabe  When I was a kid, I hated going to the dentist. Every time my mother would get me in the car for another dental cleaning, I would cringe. … Continue reading →

I have just got too much going on lately. Let’s face it actually, we all have too much going on! When my co-blogger Jim LaPierre posted his essay in Get A Life, I never planned on taking two months to … Continue reading →

In preparation of reading today’s blog Jim encourages you play the Who’s My Generation Remember being an early adolescent and there were words you were too embarrassed to ask what they meant? It seems that’s come full circle for me. … Continue reading →

In Part 2 of Relating to Our Adult Children, Jim shares his views on parenting past and present. My closest friends and family tease me that I’m everyone’s dad. My kids grew up knowing that there is no conflict in … Continue reading →

This month, in their continuing series on all the relationships in our lives, Karen and Jim will discuss our evolving relationships with our adult children. Way back in 1984 when I found out I was pregnant with my first child, … Continue reading →

In part two of our continuing series on all the relationships in our lives, Jim and Karen discuss our relationship with our bodies in middle age. Jim started out the discussion in part one “Relating to our (Groan) Middle Aged … Continue reading →

Jim shares part one: I want to live long enough to see my son go through his forties. At the moment he is 23, ten feet tall, and bullet proof. He’s athletic, trim, and in every bit the condition I … Continue reading →

When Karen and I decided to write about exes, I had to risk annoying my good friend by telling her that I don’t have any. I met my wife when I was 17. We married when I was 20. I … Continue reading →

In the next installment in our series on all the relationships is our lives, Karen discusses our relationships with our exes! Stay tuned for Jim’s response in part two. Recently, when Jim, Brigitte and I got together to discuss the … Continue reading →