Did you ever see the movie Parenthood? Shining among Ron Howard’s stellar cast of stars are Steve Martin (Gil) and Rick Moranis (Nathan), two fathers trying their best to be a “good pop.” Nathan is insanely obsessed with his theories about tapping the genius within young children;...

While most of the city is waking up, the doctor is putting my son to sleep.  He’s six years old and doesn’t know what is happening to him.  He only trusts his mom and dad when they say, ‘things will be okay,’ and then the doctor puts a mask over his little face and off to sleep he goes.  The...

My dad wasn’t always there. He was around and fatherly for my childhood but relatively absent for most of my teenage years. He regrets missing those irreplaceable moments of first dates and first cars, and we’ve reconciled since those vacant years but neither of us can get them back. I tell you that...

I apologize in advance for this article. It’s just been thrown together at the midnight hour to meet the deadline. Normally, I’d take the time to properly research a Part of the Solution to share with you. But, at the moment, I’m tired and overwhelmed after a weekend of family illness and an evening...

Burnside is blessed with a whole slew of talented contributors. Sometimes, to our utter delight, those contributors become published, and some area already established authors. Our to goal is to interview each and every one for this feature, which we’ve entitled “Burnside Sells Out”....

I gave my wife the night off yesterday, carting both the kids over to Kylie’s soccer practice. While Kylie dribbled around cones and played with her ponytail, Parker and I were 50 yards away playing baseball with the tennis balls and bat that we brought. As we were playing, a spastic 8-yr old kid...