The Daily Dad Blog
Back to school. Where there is (no) truth to be discovered.
It’s the other evening and, as we often do, we’re playing soccer on our front lawn – the dog watching, ...
Read More We’re back in Africa. With the cats. (And that Very Great Cat.)
So, after some months in our Canadian home, we’re back in Africa. The commute over the Atlantic was non-eventful with ...
Read More Americans need to take back their lives. Go to Washington en masse.
I’m at the Y and it’s the news on TV and the story that will still take some time to ...
Read More Symbols and gold watches and those monsters on the lake
A cross can be quite something, that is wearing a cross as a symbol of one’s love and devotion to ...
Read More Dogs in diapers and Speedos. (And she’s a very nice lady.)
I’m at the neighbour's getting instructions on how to feed their two dogs, how to change the, uh, diaper, of ...
Read More These warm summer days
It was a summer party. “Hey,” I said to the man who had just walked in the doorway. “You almost ...
Read More On turning 50, flying candy and new wedding rings
When you’re 20 the world (thank you Rich Mullins) is your parking lot. When you’re 30 you know better. When ...
Read More Doing less and liking it more
Before the news of the week, the sad news, let me say that my new life motto is “Doing less ...
Read More O Canada, Hannah stands on guard for thee
In time to celebrate for Canada Day, the country has a new citizen with a brand new Canadian passport in ...
Read More Yesterday’s stories. Grandparents. Beauty deep inside.
It was a view from a porch or two but there was a third porch I sat on right around ...
Read More ‘Hey, you’re on TV!’
It’s the other day in Pittsburgh and a friend emails with the news … “Hey, you’re on TV!” A couple ...
Read More A porch (or two) with a view
We’re on a front porch in Sewickley, PA, an idyllic place of mature trees and century homes, a town as ...
Read More The end of the world and other fears
The world is supposed to end today. Yawn. (Or at least the end will finally get started.) According to those ...
Read More White gloves, doppelgangers, and Glenn Gould’s piano in Ottawa
There’s little left to say about the theft of My Bride’s and my computers while in Ottawa, except that, as ...
Read More So what do you do with a couple of hot computers?
It’s the other morning and it's cool and Child #3, the African girl, is wearing purple mittens as we, all ...
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