• 3 Reasons Divorce Is Harder On Men Than Women

    I don’t ever agree with any generalizations and frankly, I don’t agree with the majority of the reasons in this article.  The first reason could not be further from the truth in my case.  On the contrary, I feel that I actually regained my identity after my separation/divorce.  The second…

  • Rob Reads: 5 Reasons Marriages Just Don’t Work Anymore

    Rob Reads: 5 Reasons Marriages Just Don’t Work Anymore

    Does social media kill marriage, or just expose the cracks? Rob weighs in on the rising divorce rate and the role of technology in modern relationships.

  • Curtain call

    Curtain call

    At the risk of sounding melodramatic, baseball is the great unifier in my family.

  • it’s March…and there’s Madness

    A confession: I’m not really much of a college basketball fan, but I absolutely LOVE March Madness, or the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament as it’s more formally known. I love how any division I school has a shot at making “the big dance” if they just win enough games. I…

  • Changes

    Changes by Tupac Come on come on I see no changes. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself, “Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?” I’m tired of bein’ poor and even worse I’m black. My stomach hurts, so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch. Cops…

  • Bit by the baby bug…again

    Bit by the baby bug…again

    One of The Auteur’s close friends, who is now a neighbor of ours, got pregnant a few months before we did and just had her baby yesterday.  She had a boy, as are we; and I have to say that I’m getting bit by the baby bug once again. I…

  • better with age?

    better with age?

    I will shave my head before I get a bald spot.  My hairline has managed to outlive those of my closest friends and I refuse to allow it to wither away now.  

  • Rob gets headshrunk

    Rob gets headshrunk

    Today, for the first time since my separation and divorce, I spoke to a counselor.

  • Rob Reads: Dad shaped hole

    Rob Reads: Dad shaped hole

    This is something that a fellow blogger whom I follow wrote.  I thought it was especially relevant to me, given what’s going on – both with my relationship with The Kid and the recent passing of The Old Man. I didn’t feel “the hole” with The Old Man; rather, I…

  • the beat goes on…

    the beat goes on…

    I wasn’t ready to get back to my everyday life; it was more than by moving on, saying goodbye to the stuff surrounding my Dad’s death and funeral, it was like I was saying goodbye to him yet again. I just wasn’t ready to move forward.