Two fact keep staring me in the face. LE starts high school on Monday. He’s as tall as me. Honestly, have I entered a time warp whereby everything has been fast-forwarded and I am just now getting around to noticing? Woody & Buzz, Where Are You? It seems like yesterday that Justin was that cute little 4 year-old boy toting his Woody the Cowboy and Buzz...

I thought perhaps we’d survive this round of budget cuts untouched. No so fast, Solo-dad. It seems that due to ‘budget cuts’ – really getting to hate that phrase- the school bus routes that served our area are now no longer in use. At first, the school’s website posted a note saying that bus service was being effected by the budget cuts...

In less than two weeks Little Elvis starts 8th grade. Although he’s talking smack about summer ending and school beginning, I can tell he’s a bit psyched about being a 8th grader. As an 8th grader he can participate in the anti-bullying program; he’ll be part of a student group that mediates disputes on the campus as well as looking out for 7th...

The assignment was simple enough in theory. “Create a human neuron out of household items.” It’s enough to make a parent scratch his head in response to the quizzical looks from his 7th grader. Neurons, yay! Cells, boo. I do have to admit it wasn’t as bad as making the three dimensional cell out of food items that we tackled a few years ago. That was pure...

When I was in junior high, my academic performance sucked.  It wasn’t that I was dumb or suffered from a learning disability, I was simply disinterested. It was a constant source of frustration for my parents who now doubt saw the potential within me. It was most likely many years later after graduating college and medical school that I finally realized my...