Long before Wife Unit and I met, I used to date around... A lot.I was a fairly indiscriminate, serial dater. I'd take out a different girl just about every night. I mean sure, I had my standards (teeth), but it didn't matter to me if I met someone at the bank, at the mall, the MiniFoods store, or at a bar. If I met...

She was into her tenth day. Her tenth day since her birthday.Leslie and I had been married just over a year, we had only dated a few months before saying "I do."We barely knew each other.Now our couple was a triple. We had a baby.---Leslie didn't come standard with the requisite set of mothering skills. She wasn't into...

Late one afternoon last May.The phone rings. RZ answers. In the haze of my nap state, I hear her tell the caller: "Yes ma'am, but he's asleep. Well ok, hold on a second."Then my daughter walks over to me and says, "Dad. Dad. Wake up. It's Guy." ("Guy" is my mom's nickname--long story)."Tell her I'm sleeping.""I did, but...

[Old story, true but old] Wife, SoML (my daughter), and I went shopping for the essentials. You know, soap, shampoo, lube, toilet paper, aspirin and so on. We were at Wal-Mart finding everything on our list except for the personal lubricant. We scoured (that's actually putting it lightly... We were like rats on acid...

Long ago we set off for Maho Bay on St. John Island in the Virgin Islands. Being tree-hugging eco-tourists at the time, we decided to stay at the Maho Bay Camp. The place was beautiful, and there was plenty to do. You could: explore, sail, windsurf, scuba, snorkel, fish, eat, drink, shop, or lapse into a coma on the...