Disclosure: I have partnered with Life of Dad and KIND for this promotion. During the past few weeks, my girls and I have traveled many miles together on foot, on bike and on water. We’ve been doing this to spend quality time together, to get fit (100% my issue), and […]
This post is about cars but it’s also about photos; those we have, those we don’t, and those we’ll see in our mind’s eye until the end of days. A photogenic memory isn’t something I could legitimately claim to have. I’d be found out the minute someone asked me to […]
By the end of day one, they were The Trio. Eight hours prior, they’d never met and now they had a moniker. A start-up worth investing in. A pinky promise. This is the power of summer camp, of shared experiences. This is the promise of curious minds melding together over […]
He blew in with the wind, very early on an otherwise unremarkable Sunday morning, and for nearly an hour he answered the phones of a doctor’s office, natural history-ish museum, King Tut’s residence in ancient Egypt, and ‘The Crumblers’ factory where they, um, crumble stuff. The voice of the famously […]
Not exactly a feminist dad dream sequence but the way I pictured it in the weeks and months leading up to the 2015 World Cup in Canada, there would be a #15 on my back, the name Rapinoe splayed out from shoulder to shoulder, and a #2, #10, #11, #17 […]
We felt it before day one, on back to school night…or maybe it was meet the teacher night…either way: the Mouse’s 2nd grade teacher was destined to be the kind of educator name-dropped decades later, when Mouse is reflecting back on what first prompted her to [insert great accomplishment verb […]
It doesn’t surprise me one bit that we spend 7 billion LESS on Father’s Day than on Mother’s Day. I get the pitches. I see the ads. It’s okay. We don’t need they shit they are selling. We dads don’t need much more than the occasional phone call to check […]
There are approximately a zillion and a half things to be done before I successfully get my wife and two daughters out the door to start our summer vacation: Did I remember sunscreen? The tangle of charging cables for all the different devices? Bathing suits? Pillows? Our National Parks pass? […]
