This personal story about my dad, cancer, and me is a sponsored post I wrote on behalf of the American Cancer Society. We were the darkened house on Halloween night. We were the Miami Marlins. Cancer didn’t come a-knocking in a Jason hockey mask, nor did it buy a ticket […]
The Bear gave basketball a chance. The girl has a bit of game, she does, but she’d tell you straightaway that hoops isn’t her cup o’ tea. She did the floor hockey thing too, but looked, let’s just say, bewildered out on the court with a plastic stick in her […]
Bird chirps, topped off gas tanks, and the crack of the bat — there isn’t anything quite as beautiful as springtime. Being a homeowner has had a number of strange impacts on me, but the most curious is my inspiring, hopeful gaze out onto my lawn. And THAT is a […]
Last week wrote this piece for The Good Men Project about the Steubenville, OH rape case. I used that forum to reflect on our role as parents and caretakers in preventing assaults of this nature going forward. I believe good parenting will shift the tide, and that we can delicately […]
Mayor Bloomberg failed today to enact a ban on mammoth sodas. Fans of small government are cheering, while concerned citizens sulk. But the real losers, as always, are the kids of the adults who think consuming 64 ounces of soda, bags of Cheetos, and sleeves of Oreos are wise food […]
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 […]
