Recently, there have been a lot of television shows, reality shows, demonstrating the huge amount of clutter in the homes of what appear to be ordinary people.  While I don’t find myself to be a terrible hoarder, I look around my house and understand how this happens.  I, too, am…

I am an unfit parent. Our first child is just mere days from being born, and I can already say I'm an unfit parent. Now, what do I mean when I say I'm an unfit parent? Not that I'm a horrible parent, but a fat one. I won't know I'm…

If you're about to have a baby, or are planning on having a baby, and you only take one piece of advice from this column, make it the following. Only pay for and go to birthing classes if you're too lazy to look up basic information online. My wife and…

Eleven days.  Eleven days?  Eleven days!  The infamous thirtieth birthday is rapidly approaching, or as i like to refer to it... my twenty-tenth birthday.  I suppose I am doing the boys an injustice since their impressionable minds are learning to count properly and I insist that twenty-ten comes after twenty-nine.  The thoughts…

Philip A Foster, MA By nature I am a Type “A” personality. When I am working on a project, I will scrutinize every detail just knowing that I am going to miss something! If I am not careful I will spend hours hovering over one sentence. It took me three…