To be a dad blogger is to be the doctor, the patient, and the audience…observing your self-surgery in that cool hospital theater room thing. Those are real right, not just elaborate set designs on primetime hospital dramas? A dad blogger must be willing to cut himself open as a means […]
When I was a pup of 6 years experience in this world, I made a promise I honestly believed I had the ability to keep. I promised my father that I’d stay 6 forever. Until the end of days, a 6-year-old boy; wide-eyed and pudgy-faced. Now a father myself, I […]
Let me first admit to not always being the fighter my fellow dad bloggers are. With internet dust-ups like the Huggies commercial thing and the Amazon Mom program, I am often not in the ring punching away. I’m more of the cut-me guy, or the hot girl with the round […]
18,235 days. Give or take. Stupid leap years. Without a doubt, more than a handful of those days were turds marred by arguments not worthy of remembering. Today though, today is a no doubt, 24 carat solid gold day. ********** I cannot stress enough how all that I am, that […]
A piece I wrote on the touchy subject of video game violence and its impact on children and families was published on The Good Men Project today, and then was quickly moved over and is being featured right now Headline News / HLN’s Raising America show page. My article is […]
[Standing Ovation] I heard buzz tonight of a great new commercial from Chris at Daddy Doctrines. He, like me and many other dad bloggers, get all tingly-like when a major brand portrays us (us as in modern dads, a collective group of non-neanderthals who have spawned at least one child) […]
Let’s start with two stories. I was keeping score, a phrase that you’ll soon discover deserves serious air quotes, at my nephew’s basketball game. He was maybe 8, the age of my oldest daughter now. One of the teams, I don’t know if it was his or not, was getting […]
Among the many needs of a modern man, well, at least this particular modern man, fresh air ranks high. Right up there with buffalo wings and chocolate milk. The Houston Four Seasons is lovely, of course it is, a modern pleasure palace if ever there was one, but even the […]
