Darin J. McCann

1 week ago | coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann

With opening ceremonies for the Millsboro and Lower Sussex Little Leagues now in our rear mirror, it’s time we make our annual plea to the parents of our young aspiring athletes: Don’t be a jerk. It sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? It sounds like it should take little to no effort at all, right? Go to the practices. Go to the games. Help out when asked for help, or approach a coach with respect if you think you have something constructive to offer. And then, well, don’t be a jerk. Just don’t do it.

2 weeks ago | coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann

A lot has changed in this community over the years. And that, dear readers, is why I get paid the big bucks. Keen observations like that one. You are welcome. Of course things have changed here. They’ve changed everywhere. Let’s just examine the time period since we started publishing the Coastal Point in February 2004.

3 weeks ago | coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann

Who doesn’t love a good soap opera? You know: A couple falls in love, they face a challenge as the woman’s ex returned after decades spent planting tulips in the Amazon rainforest, get back on track after a meteor falls on the ex while he’s teaching orphans in Antarctica to play the clarinet, see more conflict as it comes out that the man in the relationship is really a notorious criminal wanted for destroying tulips in the Amazon rainforest and… But I digress.

4 weeks ago | coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann

“We had a bird in the house,” read the text from my wife. “It was a morning.”There were two different directions for me to go upon hearing this news. The sophomoric, adolescent angle would have been to bust out laughing at the image of wife and daughter trying to evacuate a bird from the house with a dog and two cats trying to get the bird first. The adult take would have been to say, “Oh, no. Are you girls OK?” So, once I stopped laughing, I asked if they were OK. No immediate answer.

1 month ago | coastalpoint.com | Darin J. McCann

I got a good lesson in perspective earlier this week. You ever catch one of those? There you are, just trying to hold tight to the metaphorical steering wheel that is leading you from one task to the next as you attempt to navigate the violent tides of your day-to-day life, and an epiphany strikes you in the face like a piece of cold deli-sliced ham. No? Just me? You more of a pastrami person?