Sports is back! (Sports are back??) In the past few weeks, I’ve been invited to play a few games of tennis, there’s talk of getting a volleyball team together for some practice sessions soon, and I was recruited to play softball again this season. I’m taking it slow with softball, but the few practices...

My kids and I were watching the historic upset of UCLA over Michigan the other night (UCLA making its way to the Final Four as an 11-seed, whoa) (March Madness, obvi) when I suddenly heard one of the guards referred to as Jules. Which is a pretty unusual name for a dude these days....

Each of the past 4 years, my oldest kid has been participating in a national cyber-security competition where they try to find flaws in various computer system platforms. His team has done a little better each year, and this year they made it to the national finals, the first Texas high school team to...

This is from a few years ago now, but I totally forgot about it. I don’t know how clear this is, but I’m lobbing a small basketball toward my son, and he heads it into a small hoop above our closet door. I love the pre-teen enthusiasm so much. That is all....

All right, it’s done! On New Year’s Day. So cliché. Wasn’t nearly as lightning fast as I was in 2008, but I’m doing what I can to flatten this curve. There weren’t too many negative after-effects either, which is great news. Thanks for organizing it, Camille! Sure, I’d do it again. Still think another...

This isn’t nearly as impressive as I feel like it should be, but I’ve had moments of excitement imagining what it’d be like to have long hair over the last several months. I still haven’t been able to replicate where I was at age 4, but you never know. It’s getting old, but I’ll...