The Daily Dad Blog
Jon to jump from helicopter … maybe
We’re talking about telling the truth, Jon and me, and the truth is something that to a seven-year-old boy can ...
Read More On Helen Keller, being blind and doing something
You never know what to say when you’re up there. Your name is called. There’s a presenter, a certain presenter ...
Read More Living in today with yesterday’s decisions
He was a black man and he could recite entire chapters of the Scripture, and this is what he did ...
Read More Children and hope at one crossroads or another
She’s a scholar of the Old Testament and her reading glasses sit on her nose, and then she takes them ...
Read More The Lord is my Shepherd. So why do I want a Porsche?
Liz is now tall enough to legally sit in the front seat when Daddy drives. Oh no. Today, it's the front seat; tomorrow ...
Read More A Father’s Day letter to my daughter – Faraway home is where the heart is
Ten years ago, in June 2003, my daughter Elizabeth Katherine was born. My life as a father began. And life changed, ...
Read More A prayer for Hannah. And this return visit to her orphanage
It's hard to know exactly how many orphans Uganda may have. Some estimates are as high as two million. What ...
Read More On dragons, Bilbo Baggins, and My Bride’s honorary doctorate
The thing about dragons is that you have to believe they exist before you can go and slay them. And ...
Read More Henry Morgentaler: dark hero lost at sea
To be a hero can be a strange thing, something we were reminded of in recent days with the death ...
Read More The problem with religious people
She was in Seat 24A and she looked like she had lived, but still too young to be a grandmother, ...
Read More Dellen Millard: a young man of ambition
Ambition, like contentment, is one of those strange words to talk about with the children because it means everything and nothing at ...
Read More Mayor Ford says media way off on Coke allegations, he prefers water
As the allegations against Ourtown Mayor Freddy Ford continue to dominate headlines, The Daily Dad caught up with the mayor ...
Read More Science and God and our Dodge minivan
He was a name – an astronaut – a man of numbers more than anything, but he still knew the ...
Read More Tim Bosma’s funeral II – What do we tell the children?
It was just my daughter Liz and me in the living room, a quiet moment in the evening when I ...
Read More Tim Bosma’s funeral: a bittersweet day
The children had dental appointments and I was running late and so found myself in the back without a program ...
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