Lost & Found Dog & The Silliness Of Fighting Sentimentalism
Over the past three years, I’ve posted an occasional photo of my dog Zuki to the Photoblog section here at Fish & Bicycles. But one only has to spend a small amount of time surfing the millions of...
View ArticleVinyl Records Are Magic!
WAY back in December 2009, in a post titled Nostalgia: Vinyl Records Edition, I wrote about a trip with my son to a local eatery, an eatery known as much for their Russian dumplings as they are for the...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: Father’s Day Weekend Edition
Me & Julian, Father’s Day, 2013Since I likely won’t be able to post anything on Father’s Day this Sunday, and since my son, Julian, is now 17-1/2 years old and his days in the nest are painfully...
View ArticleTweet of the Day: @TheOnion
Given my recent post waxing nostalgic and all sentimental on the subject of fatherhood, including references to the common fears that seem to come with the job… …this TOTALLY cracked me up! Report:...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: Marriage Equality Edition
The news this morning, that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can no longer deny same-sex couples the right to marry is a major breakthrough for justice and civil rights. We still have VERY...
View ArticleTo Man Bun, Or Not To Man Bun?
When I first heard my 17-year old son refer to some guy’s hairstyle as a “man bun”, I chuckled heartily. Little did I know at the time just how much of a thing man buns are! See, I’ve lived here in...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: Mountaineering, Monty Python & My Son The Rock Climber
It’s been WAY too long since I wrote about My Son The Rock Climber! That’s him six years ago, age 12, in the lede photo here, climbing on the wall we built for him in his bedroom. By the time this...
View ArticleVideo Fridays: Jeff Tweedy & Stephen Colbert
After my depressing post this morning, I thought I’d lighten things up, WAY up, with this sweet clip from last night’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for this week’s Video Fridays installment. I’ve...
View ArticleNotes From Italy: An Introduction
As mentioned in my last post, my wife, son and I recently returned from a 2-week trip in Italy, a trip that defibrillated and resuscitated my inner blogger. The first product of this resurrection will...
View ArticleTrapped Under Something Heavy
There’s a scene in a movie that I love a lot, Rob Reiner’s 1989 film When Harry Met Sally, where Harry (Billy Crystal) leaves a message on an answering machine (remember those?!) for Sally (Meg Ryan)...
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