Articles by Chris Erskine

568 articles since 1997

Dad, what’s a family budget?

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | July 24, 2008
SO, POSH canceled last week’s attempt at a ceiling fan installation when she realized it was just a giant, spinning aphrodisiac, and our summer of love ended in the third week of July. Read more
 

Ticket to the Last Frontier

Travel | By Chris Erskine | July 20, 2008
Seward, Alaska The Alaska Railroad slices up the middle of the state like a bolt of blue and yellow lightning, into the belly of a place that is camera-ready and bountiful beyond belief. Read more
 

Sex and the sweaty: the sequel

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | July 17, 2008
POSH AND I have been working on the tone we use with each other, which grows more clipped with every up-tick in the temperature. Read more
 

Nothing is permanent, especially sports ‘retirements’

Sports | By Chris Erskine | July 15, 2008
As Brett Favre is reminding us, retirement doesn’t really mean retirement anymore. Read more
 

She’s got the beep

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | July 10, 2008
WE’RE trying to steal some family time in this increasingly busy and beepy world – a world that has become electronic almost to a fault, human connections going, going, gone . Read more
 

Chillin’ with the tiniest team

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | June 26, 2008
SO THE Blue Jay Sluggers cap their undefeated season – no wins, no losses, 14 ties – with a party in the park. Read more
 

Backyard camping with Dad

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | June 19, 2008
SO MY dad took a couple of days off, allowing me to “guest host” his column for him again, a task I rank right up there with scrubbing pond scum off a canoe. Read more
 

Third and long in the tooth

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | June 12, 2008
OUR TOUCH football season ended last week, after the doctor told me I needed some work done on my elbow. Read more
 

The prom dates are here

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | June 5, 2008
ILOVE love. Read more
 

The elves come out to play

Home & Garden | By Chris Erskine | May 29, 2008
IREALIZED in the second week of the T-ball season that I had somehow been blessed with a team of elves, leprechauns and Smurfs. Read more
 
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