I Broke His Little Heart

Rick Holtz is a reporter for the Polk County News. Find his column, Reporter’s Notebook, from time to time in the newspaper and online at www.polkcountynews.net.
Rick Holtz is a reporter for the Polk County News. Find his column, Reporter’s Notebook, from time to time in the newspaper and online at www.polkcountynews.net.

I broke Charlie’s heart over the weekend. But it had to be done.

As the five or six of you who read my column regularly will know I have four kiddos running around at home. Charlie is my 4-year-old and he thinks he is going on 18.

No, it is not that he still doesn’t know his numbers; he just really has an attitude. Now, if you open a window and listen close you might be able to hear my mom laughing …