Whenever you鈥檙e introducing a new pet into the family, a process takes place 鈥 a ritual, if you will.Before we adopted our dog, the process started with my stepdaughter, Emma, asking for a dog, me saying not now, her insisting and then getting my wife, Amber, involved to crush my spirits ...
<em>As a kid, you always wanted to treat your parents equally. If my brother and I made my mom breakfast in bed on Mothers Day, we had to do the same for my dad on Fathers Day. When we begged one parent for a pet snapping turtle, we had to beg to the other one, too. It鈥檚 that ...
Bruce Springsteen once said 鈥 well, sang, actually 鈥 鈥漼ou can鈥檛 start a fire without a spark鈥 and then he talked and talked and talked.Nothing against Springsteen, but you go to one of his four-hour-long concerts, three hours of it is just him talking.鈥淲ooohooo!,鈥 a fan would gush ...