So this is 37, huh?

Shush it math people. Who asked you anyway?

Speaking of math people, Teenager #3 got all antagonistic when I bemoaned my birthday being on a Monday. Again. 

"I swear, my birthday is on a Monday every...single....year!"

"No no," she says, getting all ind...

Barring something unexpected in the next 10 or so hours, we’ve managed to make it through another year. And a decade I suppose, although the mathematician in me thinks the next decade technically starts on 1/1 of 2021.

Feel free to join me in telling mathematics to stop...

I took up a new hobby last week: "Neuroadapting." I'm a neuroadapter. I neuroadapt.

Rewind almost two years ago, when I started noticing my right eye was a little "off." I went in for a thorough eye exam only to be told that my eyes were good and I was probably dealing...

Things rarely go as expected when a parent starts nosing around in a teenager's room. 

Yesterday was no exception. I'm innocently glancing around the desk area of the oldest and my eyes come across this:

Straight up: What in the hell is this?

"Jack! Get in here and explai...

If you're someone that follows along closely, you either a) have been wondering where the hell I've been the last half a year(!) or b) knew that I started a new job not too long ago. Time to write has taken a back seat to time to think, which has taken a back seat to t...

I hear the big, end-of-season football game is coming to Minneapolis this year. Which got me thinking as I was driving into work and peering out the 8 square-inch clear spot on my windshield where I actually had good visibility this morning: How is anyone not from here...

If you're new to Kind Acts of Randomness, or just haven't figured it out yet, a lot of my life can be characterized by "Meh...close enough (shrug)". If I ever write a memoir, that may even be the title. Chances are, I'll just copy and paste everything I've posted here,...

About 5 minutes after the oldest kid hit middle school, I knew I had just started the phase of life where I fall out of touch with technology and just about anything else that's on trend.

First it was just subtle cluelessness: "Wait...something being 'sick' is...

I was fortunate to participate in a moving event -- the annual wreath-laying event coordinated by Wreaths Across America. Each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, the organization's "mission to Remember, Honor and Teach is carried out by coordinating wreat...

Here's how the whole thing goes (and it surely goes this way in your home if you have teenagers):

"Hey kids, what happened to the bottle of water I just put in the fridge 0.28 seconds ago?!?"

"Sorry. I drank that. I didn't know it was yours. Maybe you should label it."

I...