The Daily Dad Blog
A message for Liz – Just Be It
So I’m in front of Liz’s class – I think there were three classes put together actually – and we’re ...
Read More The Brady Bunch … and seeing a shrink?
We got home late but it wasn't a school night so the children wanted to watch The Brady Bunch. Season ...
Read More Is parenting your highest calling?
Of all the myths of parenthood, one of the biggest has to be that children can make you happy and ...
Read More A good deal all around
‘Daddy, Daddy!’ Liz could barely contain herself. I was reading. She was going up on her tip-toes, up and down, ...
Read More A father can be many things
I’m on the elliptical at the club and the news clip shows a bloody and ugly scene from yet another ...
Read More Eat well, do well
Being popular and oatmeal don’t seem to have a lot in common. But you have to know Hannah. My daughter, ...
Read More Jon’s premarital woes continue
So, they’re still at it, still after my son and asking for his hand in marriage – Agnes and Rainer ...
Read More What do you mean, ‘intact’?
The photo, which had been shot for our engagement, has been on the wall of one home office or another: ...
Read More ‘So, Daddy, it was here? It was right here?’
Speaking of returning to places that are good for the soul, the earth of my elementary school is one such ...
Read More Taking your soul on a weekend getaway
So we’re on a ferry going from Whidbey Island to the coast of Washington State. His name is Paul and ...
Read More Summer snow
(Cont'd from yesterday) To finish the story of Gloria, the little Ugandan girl who is the thief –turned-family-friend, there’s not ...
Read More For God so loved the world
(Cont’d from yesterday) … So after spending the night at the precinct, the girls’ families were found and informed of ...
Read More Jon’s underwear – gone
They were all missing … Liz’s swimsuit (they call them swim ‘costumes’ here), Jean’s shirts, Jon’s underwear and other things ...
Read More Birds, bees … rabbits
Really Dad, the birds and the bees? You told Jon about the birds and the bees? This is what Liz ...
Read More The ice house
I dreamed we had a series of skating rinks in our house. We can’t do that, my Bride said when ...
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