4th and 1st. That’s what started this week. It was scheduled and planned for, but remains nonsensical because the warmth is still here and we all know the stickiness will return before a single leaf turns red. It’s confusing because the backyard play equipment is more than capable of taking […]
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 […]
Behind every successful (definition pending) dad blogger is an amazing woman. Or an amazing man. Or no one at all. I pretty much have no idea where I was going with that, but I do know where I am going this week (how ’bout that professionally awkward segue?) I am […]
Ask any actively-involved dad what he thinks about the portrayal of papas on TV and you’ll get, at a minimum, a hearty groan. If you’re lucky, you may also receive a face full of rant. Good times. None of us like the dufus dad thing continually perpetrated by Madison Ave. […]
On Tuesday there was giddy chatter about a possible Friday snowstorm. The Bear’s buckle hadn’t yet clicked and she was already telling me about a revolutionary, union-culled consensus amongst the 3rd graders to wear their pajamas inside-out and place a spoon under every pillow on Thursday night. Tonight, as I […]
The kids in grade school teased me because of my big head. They were right. It was, and still is, larger than most. How else am I to store away my super brain? Later, the majority of my classmates in the all-boys prep school I attended for four years thought […]
Years ago, when our Skylanders kids were nothing more than a distant twinkle in our hopefully, young-adult eyes, I cooked a dinner for friends, with a printed menu and everything! It was a tasting menu, because I was watching too much Food Network and was prone to trying hard, with […]
