FISTFULAYEN

As I’ve mentioned before, I pick a couple songs to listen to with six year-old Lucinda at bedtime. Tonight “I’d Have To Be Crazy”, sung by Willie Nelson, originally appearing on one of my dad’s favorite albums, The Sound in Your Mind. Take a listen. Like Al Green’s “Simply Beautiful”, I could listen to it [...]

If there’s anything better than a six year-old dancing to Judas Priest in the mirror, I don’t know what it is. Happy Thanksgiving, ian

American kids are getting fat. They never move. They play video games. They watch TV. School lunches are Hot Cheetos and Mountain Dew. Or so we’re told. Visit our six year-old Lucinda’s school between 7:30 and 8:30 in the morning and you’ll find more kids than you can easily count running laps around their school [...]

Lucinda (now 6) falls asleep listening to music every night. You could say it’s distracting, a crutch, or just a general bad habit but my outlook on life says more music is always better and I consider it a great way to fortify her subconscious with melody and beats. She gets stuck on albums and [...]

Dear Zoe, The past four years have gone by faster for me than any other before them. It’s impossible to believe your time in college is over. Yet Friday I watched you graduate. You did it. Congrats. I’m so proud of you. I know it wasn’t always easy. MIT wasn’t the make-friends/party-time place college can [...]