How was your Christmas? Mine was barfy

How was your Christmas? Mine was barfy

Tate is a barfy kid. Colorado, California, the Netherlands. If he’s been there, he’s barfed there. (Our apologies to the street in front of the Anne Frank House.)  It usually happens when he falls asleep in the car. So we do our best to keep him awake. Because...
Home. Work.

Home. Work.

I don’t like bringing work home. But it happens.   I was working on a presentation, at the phase where I was literally just copying and pasting from one document to another, when Tate walked in the room. “Are you working?” “Yes.”...
Gone Afoul

Gone Afoul

No one believed me. No one. But my confidence could not be shaken. I told the kids today was the day I would catch a foul ball. “You always say that, Dad.” Well, I do always say that. But this time I meant it. It was a quintessential spring day in Utah. Ice cold in...
Chemo Day(s)

Chemo Day(s)

Wondering what the chemo routine is like for Traci? Come on, she’ll take you on a little tour. Sunday Funday Though I get chemo on Mondays, the process actually begins the day before. Every Sunday, I go to the hospital to get bloodwork done, which means going to the...
Bath Bomb EXPLOSION!

Bath Bomb EXPLOSION!

My love of the bathtub — or the tubby, as I like to call it — goes back decades. Prop up an iPad and a bluetooth speaker and there’s no better place to watch Monday Night Football, the World Series, or dozens of episodes of your favorite Dutch high school soap opera....