AndyEmpty Genius in the Information AgeThe other day my nearly four year old child managed to use some of that youthful energy and inexperienced ingenuity to break the pull…Apr 25, 2019Apr 25, 2019
AndySnipped: My Journey to a Vasectomy“Pull your pants down to your ankles and then cover yourself up with this. I’ll be back in a few minutes,” the nurse stated as she handed…Mar 27, 20191Mar 27, 20191
AndyThe Librarian and the ToddlerWhat I didn’t know until the last year is that for the past decade I had been training to answer all of the questions that my young son…Feb 4, 2019Feb 4, 2019
AndyFirst Time FatherhoodFatherhood is scary. I don’t feel it’s anything but obvious to admit because of the magnitude of the terror that is involved with it. In…Jan 31, 20191Jan 31, 20191
AndyPolymathWhat does it meant to be a renaissance man or woman or person in the modern age? I’ve been thinking about the concept while I’ve been…Jan 28, 2019Jan 28, 2019
AndyShoesHaving big feet as a teen is hard. In those pre-internet years of the late 80’s and early 90’s, my choices for footwear was extremely…Jan 24, 2019Jan 24, 2019
AndySiberia“Siberia” was the nickname for the new field that the commercial nursery that I worked for after college had acquired. It was formerly a…Jan 22, 2019Jan 22, 2019
AndyThe Road to LibrarianshipWhen I was a kid, my life’s ambition was to be an auto mechanic. I wouldn’t be able to tell you why I wanted to do that since I was not a…Jan 20, 2019Jan 20, 2019
AndyThe Best A Man…It’s been a couple of days since the shaving supply company Gillette revealed an ad which called on men to drop the “boys will be boys”…Jan 18, 2019Jan 18, 2019
AndyFiddlesticksIn the recent past, I’ve written about taking on the dad identity and the ups and downs of reinventing oneself. The lighter side of that…Jan 16, 2019Jan 16, 2019