The Daily Dad Blog
Hey, let’s lock the fun out of school!
There was a time when a neighbourhood school was more than a place you simply went for classes and drudgery, ...
Read More Midnight in Paris
There was Notre Dame and the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower, of course. We biked through the heart ...
Read More Dear Mr. Millard – Letter 3 – If you ever want forgiveness, everything you have isn’t enough
Even on this side of Easter, forgiveness is no easy thing. Christ said so much during a beachside breakfast with ...
Read More Betrayed by a kiss. Saviour of the world.
Judas, giver of history’s best-known kiss, has always had a bad rap. While Judas was a very capable individual – ...
Read More Dear Mr. Millard – Letter 2 – Have you seen the road to hell?
My relationship with my own father has mellowed much over the years. This is what marriage and children and grandchildren ...
Read More Dear Mr. Dellen Millard – Letter 1- Let me share something about evil
We don’t give much thought to the devil these days – we’re well beyond all that. The best you might ...
Read More Why I support a longer school day
It’s dinner time and once again the kids just HAVE to talk about sex, which is quite remarkable considering the ...
Read More God’s not dead. He’s living inside my son.
She’s an astronaut, a space walker, a scientist of scientists, way up there in the cosmos, first floating free for ...
Read More Forgiving our fathers. And mothers. (What a load.)
If there is one thing I’ve learned about fatherhood since the condition fell on me (like a piano out of a 4th-floor ...
Read More Hey Little Jeannie. You’ve got so much love. (And I’m a better man for it.)
The truth is that if it wasn’t for My Bride, I’d be living on some deserted island hunting wild boar ...
Read More The joy of singleness. (Or … Ahhh, the single life. No vomit bag today)
My daughter vomited on the way to school yesterday morning. This, of course, is the sort of thing that makes ...
Read More On mini-skirts and Love (is our highest calling)
The newspaper, one of Uganda’s national dailies, is open on my desk. “What are you reading?” asks Liz. “A story ...
Read More Let’s talk about sex. (And fear and politics and phoney religion too)
“Hey, let’s talk about sex!” I said. I couldn’t help it. It was at the dinner table yesterday evening and ...
Read More Eat. Pray. Drive.
Once there was a dad who, every morning on the way to school, would pray for safety on the road. ...
Read More Men, this International Women’s Day, WAKE UP!
I’ve always liked older women. When I was in Grade 2, Queen Elizabeth was … well … quite something, up there ...
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