“Hey Dad, let me give you a squeeze,” someone said in a very silly voice.It was one of my teenage boys. “What? Why?” I asked, as I looked...

I don’t know when you last tried to wake up a teenage boy, but for me it is almost a daily occurrence. And what I have learned over the...

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that we’re either addicted to noise or afraid of silence; perhaps both. And I am starting to believe...

For a few years now, I have lived on what many would call a “hobby farm.” Many different animal sounds can be heard from any window in...

It was evening in my house and I was sending the kids off to bed one by one. And much like every other family that I have ever...