Posts Tagged ‘marriage’

DRV002- The New Uke

March 11 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family, Podcast Tags: , , , , , , ,

I got a new ukelele, and I thought I would break it in with a song. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "DRV002- The New Uke", url: "http://dadrevisited.com/drv002/" });... Read more

Date Night Used To Be Easier

February 5 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Photo from Love-Sessions.com One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to spend more time with my wife and value that relationship more. She and I took our first step by having the first Date Night we’ve had in a while. Getting out of the house for date night is no easy task these days. Going on a date before kids is as... Read more

Phone Call

January 16 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: , , , ,

“I just called… to say… I love youoooooo!” I know, I know. But the other day, I was feeling like I should call. I was lonely. I felt, at that particular moment, that I wanted to hear her voice. She wasn’t there. The voice mail picked up. Now I had to decide what to do. Should I: hang up? I didn’t really... Read more

My Hearing Problem

November 21 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: ,

I’m told I have a hearing problem. Either that or an earring bra bum. It’s hard to tell. But to quote Inigo Montoya, “I do not think that means what you think it means.” I do have trouble with my hearing. Years of sitting in front of the trumpets in Band, coaching and playing drums in Marching Band, and a childhood... Read more

Cafeteria Catholic- Same Sex Marriage

November 15 | Posted by Vinny | Cafeteria Catholic, Faith Tags: , , , , , ,

The 2008 election was an historic election. No, not for Barack Obama. The residents of the State of California decided that the right for any two people to marry, regardless of their gender, was no longer to be sanctioned. The text of Proposition 8 read, simply, that “(o)nly marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in... Read more

Cafeteria Catholics- Abortion

November 2 | Posted by Vinny | Cafeteria Catholic, Faith Tags: , , , , ,

As a Cafeteria Catholic, I don’t agree with all the core precepts of my faith. I guess it means I’m not much of a Catholic, but I am who I am, and I figure some faith is better than none, Believe it or not, I was a teenager once. As a stupid young man, I engaged in a fair amount of... Read more

I got married

September 18 | Posted by Vinny | Marriage and Family Tags: , , ,

Not recently, of course. I’ve been married for a while. More than 18 years, to be specific. I knew a few girls in my younger years. I wasn’t what the kids today might call a ‘player’ but I did okay. Well, okay for a young man who played the clarinet and saxophone, sang in a Renaissance singing group wearing tights, took... Read more