The Night Before the Big Day Last evening, LE and I attended the wedding rehearsal for my son, Ben and his fiancee, Crystal. Set on the sprawling mountaintop campus of the Mountain Winery (formerly, the Paul Masson Winery in Saratoga, California) overlooking the Santa Clara Valley, it is a truly beautiful setting. Wineries – The New Cool Both of my married...

Who me? Nervous? It’s a happy time around the Solo-Dad Beach Bungalow.  On Saturday, my son Benjamin will marry his fiancee at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California. Jumping for Joy Last night Ben invited his groomsmen (LE is one and is excited to be hanging out with both brothers) to join him at Sky High Sports in Santa Clara for a last minute romp on...

(As my son’s wedding nears, I thought I’d bring this post from last July over from my personal blog.) It was the day she’d dreamed about for most of her life. She stood next to the young man she has loved for over four years. Around her stood approximately 250 of her closest friends and family. Among the crowd, 9 grandparents, two moms, scads of siblings,...

Ah, summer.  The sights, the sounds, the smells… The Frenzied Solo-Parent! Almost all kids and teenagers begin the annual ritual of crossing days off the calendar. An ‘X’ through another day is like a badge of honor for students everywhere. The countdown to the end of school is certainly a force to be reckoned with and it’s full-on at our house as well. The...

Welcome to the new Solo-Dad.com! OK, nothing has changed but the theme.  And even though I’ve been immersed in it for a few days working on things ‘inside,’ I’m really liking the results. Of course, it really doesn’t matter what I think. It’s your opinion that matters. Why the Change? I changed the theme of Solo-Dad (being a WordPress blog it was super...