Well, kids, that’s it.  Vacation is nearly over and I find myself faced with yet another return to work and my sordid little cubicle.   I’m thinking that it might be a two or even possibly ten Valium day. Florida

Just like garlic shrimp, tasteful pornography, fine-grade heroin, and the Christmas season, one can have just too much of a good thing when it is consumed in excess. We are all moused out, I’m afraid, having crawled over every one of the f

After five exhausting days, Stef’s hockey camp finally came to an end and none too soon.  I was getting more than just a little restless, what with all the lying around the pool that had to be done while waiting to pick the boy up from the

With the boy soundly embedded in the hockey camp, we’ve had the welcomed opportunity to visit those other Florida attractions not necessarily associated with the demonic mouse that has come to own the Orlando area.  First stop:  Dayto

Sometimes it sucks to be the best you can be.    Case in point:  Stefan’s week-long hockey camp.  Whereas his mother and I were able to sit poolside and sip mint juleps until it was time to chase the lizards off of the pool

The weekend before Stef’s hockey camp has been relatively tame, I suppose.  Since the boy and his mother are along for the ride on this one, I’ve curtailed my penchant for rock cocaine and prostitutes and so we’ve settled for a

Lizards. I love the little guys. It seems that ever since I was a small boy, I’ve enjoyed a special bond with these awkward prehistoric leftovers.  I’m really not quite sure where it comes from, but there’s little tha

Pardon my literary weariness.  Jet lag, which had somehow escaped my twenties and thirties, has now taken firm hold and I find it terribly difficult to keep my peepers open.  I fear that I’m just one step away from Metamucil . . . &nb

First entry title:  Out of the gloom . . . Aaaaaah . . . Florida.  Land of sun, sand, swamps, and Girls Gone Wild.   Did I fail to mention alligators, the tanned and artificially enhanced, Nascar racing, teetering snowbirds o