The Daily Dad Blog

So, we, the five of us, have been out of Africa for a bit, and taking the long way home ...

Okay, (still catching up here from last time), speaking of watching movies in Uganda, which we were recently with this ...

We’re taking the long way home. Through the UK. More to follow. Before this, through Athens. More to follow from ...

It’s dinner. The vote goes in the kids’ favour for what DVD we will watch this evening. (Dad's latest find, ...

It’s not yet breakfast and I catch Child #1.  I bend over to her ear. “I have a secret,” I ...

It’s bedtime. Liz needs to get to the kitchen to make her snack for the next day. “Dad!” she says. ...

When it’s all over (this two-lives-for-the-price-of-one business, this travel and observing and returning home, then leaving again and looking more ...

It was this morning and we had just left the kids at school. And we (my cousin and her husband, ...

I woke up this morning and, as I often do, told my wife what I dreamed. Just a dream. Then ...

The thing about working with words is that they can get tired and worn and they can lose their meaning. ...

It’s morning, just past sunrise, and the youngest, Child #3, gives me a big hug at the door. “Wish me ...

You never know what might happen when you pick up a book, even a book that has sat on your ...

It’s Monday morning coffee at the kids’ school, a privileged school if for no other reason than it sits in ...

The last note in this space was that life is a gift and life is a mystery, both clichés and ...

There are New Year resolutions and most are a waste of breath because if you or me or anyone is ...