As a father of 3, I have some experience with being a dad. I remember the first day of entering fatherhood when I brought Aaliyah home. Seeing how small she was in her already small car seat. I remember how fragile she felt in my inexperinced arms. Being so scared doing anything with her. With …
This year I thought how to make this the best Halloween ever without trick-or-treating but with crafts, decorations, and wonderful treats.
Like night and day they say. More like heaven and hell. That’s what the differences between pregnancies can be. One thing that sets pregnancies apart is morning sickness. Some women have the worst case you could imagine. Others don’t have it at all. While other women are fine the first pregnancy and feel like dying …
I’m laying here waiting for my little girl to drift away to dreamland. One of us, my wife or I, always has to stay in the bedroom to keep our daughter company till she falls asleep. Even now at 5 years old we still do it, especially when she had a particularly bad day. I …
“Stop chasing me with your stinky naked butt!” That’s the phrase the CEO and a few of my co-workers heard while we were on a phone call. That would be the lovely quote that my daughter yelled, as she busted into the room I was hiding in trying to avoid interruptions such as that. Lucky …
Another couple down, another relationship gone. Not mine, but a couple I know. The guy left his wife and 2 kids. Crazy, if you knew how happy they seemed. That’s how it goes though right? The front a breaking couple can put on is so convincing that you just assume that they are the happiest …
I was going to use one of those stereotypical images of a guy in a dark room alone, image bathed in blue. Perhaps a lonely desert road with a car way in the distance. You know like the commercials for depression medication. Honestly though, that is not what it’s like when you are a father …
I wrote this last night. The night of the helicopter crash that took 9 lives to include the OCC’s Baseball coach, his wife and daughter. Kobe Bryant and his daughter, another mother and daughter, the girls basketball coach and the pilot. As I sit here putting my own children to sleep I can’t help but …
I read a disturbing story recently about how another young teen had committed suicide. All because of bullying. They picked on for her foreign accent, how she dressed, they pushed her, and they teased her daily. Even at her funeral the bully’s made fun of her outfit. The outfit was chosen by her parents which …
I’m not the most health-conscious person nor am I a germaphobe. You can’t really be like that when you have lived in Maine running through the woods. I’ve lived in barracks with 50 other dudes. I’ve lived in a foreign country with people burning trash and human waste all day, every day. All that I …
