It is time once again for every family to make their pilgrimage into the farmlands of America to pick their fall pumpkin. I have no idea how this tradition was started but I am sure it has some kind of interesting history. I am convinced that someday one of these pumpkins farms will make a video about it and force me to watch it before entering the farm. Going to a farm is the kickoff to the three month holiday season and in many ways sets the tone for how well Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years will go. With the pumpkin picking raised to such a high...

Before school even started this year, we were already using our inclement weather days. There goes Presidents Day as a holiday and before we know it Spring break will be Spring day. With school still closed in August, it almost felt like the good old days where school started after Labor Day and we put people on the moon. Now we start in early August and can’t even put people to work. I did what half the rest of the city did and took my daughter to the Zoo. The Louisville Zoo is a great place to go when school is canceled because you get to see so many of...

It is time once again in Louisville for parents to brave the overcrowded aisles of Target, Wal-Mart and Kmart to find those “school supply list” items. Getting the “list” in the mail is worse than finding out you are being audited. If I had any common sense, I would have looked at last year’s list and shopped in May or June - but now it is coming down to the wire and I am having trouble finding the illusive school supply box. The box cannot be just any school supply box either. I have a first grader who has an image to uphold after all. This is...

I am not sure the exact moment I decided to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a stand-up comic. When I was a kid growing up at a Christian camp I would tell jokes to anyone and everyone that came. I had a new audience every week. Usually by the end of a summer I had 2 or 3 jokes completely refined and the timing down. When I became an adult (against my wishes by the way) the dream seemed to fade into the background. The main reason I never pursued it was I had no idea how to get started in stand-up comedy. I had never been to a comedy club and had no...