Author: Mark

I am 40 years old, have been married to a beautiful woman for 7 years, and we have an 18-month old son.  And, an old adopted old cat! Basically, what I am trying to say is I am a responsible; most of the time, adult. So, because of that and the fact that I have…

My wife is a stay-at-home and a work-from-home mom; how she balances these in addition to taking care of me and Franklin, I have no clue.  All I do know is she is doing an awesome job and I really appreciate everything she does.  She deserves more than an ode; she deserves a hug and…

Just a really quick announcement and it doesn’t involve any human beings; if you know what I mean.  I am actually rebranding my writing and photography Facebook pages  to one new page at facebook.com/themarkspeaks.  So, please go and like it.  You will find my sports articles and photos and my daddy blogs; basically it will…

On Tuesday Nina and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary.  I was planning on picking up dinner for us, but that didn’t happen.  After a lot of back and forth text messages regarding food, Nina told me she had some steaks in the freezer; as soon as I saw that, I was like yes, steaks…

Niko is 17 months old and knows a lot of words; what they mean and what they look like.  Where did he get his smarts from?  He imitates sounds we make and I just love that! I really need to start watching what comes out of my mouth!  He also helps clean up his toy…