Walter Payton tagged posts

Yesterday, I wrote this article which was more or less an amusing account on the difficulties of raising a child to love the Chicago sports teams that have been so heart-breaking to me in the past.

The general consensus was that I should remain loyal to my teams and take my new son on this journey, regardless of my primal nature to protect him from anything which may cause him pain...

In case you didn’t notice (and odds are you didn’t), I’ve been on a little bit of a hiatus for awhile.  My reason for being away wasn’t some sort of contract dispute or holdout situation.  I wasn’t hospitalized, and I wasn’t backpacking through Europe (or more dangerously, Philadelphia).

The reason for my time away was the birth of my first son.

The days leading up to the birth were filled with preparation for his arrival and, of course, pampering his mother.  Needless to say, both tasks were extremely time-consuming — but more a pleasant than one would expect...