When I was a kid, I learned a poem that was, to me, pure genius. I vaguely remember repeating it every day, several times a day, when I was in third or fourth grade. Then, one day, I stopped repeating it. It had grown old, overused, and was no longer witty to me. Or, perhaps, […]
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My Hero: My Mother
September 2, 2010 
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My mom is the strongest, nicest, most compassionate, most loving, and most tenacious woman I know. She is, simply, amazing. Right now, she’s lying unconscious in ICU at Florida Hospital, Celebration Health, near Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. She endured six long, extremely high risk, hours of surgery yesterday and, despite the odds, emerged […]
Continue readingLife Lessons Taught to Father By Son
August 26, 2010 4 Comments
I’d like to tell you that I’m a laid back kind of guy, but I would be lying. I’m not laid back. I am passionate, quick to judge at times, and have been battling anger issues for my entire life. I am just not the paragon of cool and acceptance that most of you think […]
Continue readingWe’re Having a Baby!
March 27, 2010 5 Comments
I am so overwhelmed with emotion that I don’t know where to begin. Excitement, nervousness, fear, giddiness, love, and happiness. Let me start from the beginning. I am so happy I can’t contain myself. After my cancer treatments, I was told that the drug that was used on me in chemotherapy almost certainly negatively impacted […]
Continue readingMy Son; the High School Wrestler
January 30, 2010 0 Comments
I’m very proud of my oldest son, Matthew. He has been on the Boone High School wrestling team for two years now. He started in 9th grade, not even understanding the basic concepts of wrestling. It was a sport I never participated in so I couldn’t help him, even if I hadn’t been stricken by […]
Continue readingI am Dad
January 25, 2010 3 Comments
My daughter is upset with me this morning. She somehow had misplaced her favorite jacket and was complaining about not having anything to wear. She was grumpy and in a surly mood. Her mother tried to hand her an alternate jacket and it was rejected ungraciously. Carey then tried to point out to our daughter […]
Continue readingThe Sparks Family Rules
July 14, 2009 1 Comment
It’s almost 8:00am and I am tired to the bone. I haven’t slept a wink. Matthew and Christopher had guests over last night – four of them total – and they kept me up most of the night. They were not too loud. They were not too rowdy. They were just teen-aged boys doing what […]
Continue readingBeware Drivers . . .
April 21, 2009 1 Comment
I am teaching my oldest son, Matthew, how to drive. He’s 15-years-old and is preparing for his learner’s permit. Over the past few months I have gradually let him drive on back roads more and more often. Yesterday, we went to the empty student parking lot at Boone High School in Orlando – that’s where […]
Continue readingCarey Has a Blog!
April 9, 2009 3 Comments
The love of my life apparently feels that I exaggerate and am not 100% honest in my blogs; especially when I describe how she smacks me in the back of the head or uses her laser-like sarcasm as she trods me underfoot. She has created her own blog to refute my “blatant exaggerations” and to […]
Continue readingBinary’s Kids
March 13, 2009 2 Comments
I have blogged a lot about myself, my cancer, my life, my love (Carey), and everything in between. I mention my kids fairly frequently, but I haven’t spoken too much about them. In the past it was because they were younger and I didn’t want to expose them on the web. Now that they’re older, […]
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