My kid has a few sleep problems, and as most parents know, kiddo’s sleep problems are your sleep problems.  She sleeps in her own bed—most of the time.  Strange noises will drive her into ours, and we’re far too tired to try to get her back to her own bed.  Like most small children, she [...]

OK, here’s the thing about Midwestern weather: it’s all about extremes, about the unexpected.  I woke up a few minutes late this morning, which wouldn’t normally be an issue, but something seemed wrong about the light in the house.  I glanced out the window and saw—nothing.  I turned out the light and looked again, but [...]

In 1926, the Tigers traded Ty Cobb to Philadelphia and Detroit finished the season 79-75.  Not a stellar year for the local boys of summer, but my dad managed to get born at the same time.  Between that and the Tigers dumping a washed up drunk racist, Detroit did OK that year.  In 1935, with [...]

It’s fall in the Midwest, and the big picture only tells a bit of the truth.  Sure, the days are getting shorter, but it’s the details that really drive home what’s to come.  I’ve worn a jacket to work a few times in the last week.  I had to find it fist. When I go [...]

I’ve always loved to read.  Every morning I would sit with my cereal and read the box until until the word “riboflavin” was burned into my eyes.  Eventually I graduated to the Detroit Free Press, and I had a particular order in which I’d read it.  I discarded the headlines as boring and irrelevant, but [...]