The Daily Dad Blog
Today the plane flies. So does the newsletter. (If you care.)
Friends - Today we -- My Bride, the children, Yours Truly -- are back on a plane to Uganda. (And, as they ...
Read More Last night
It was the last night in my Canadian home. The day, a busy one, the end of a stretching week, ...
Read More Training the cats and loving our neighbours
It’s been a mad dash these days to pack up the house – again – for our annual return to ...
Read More So what’s your story?
The highlight of the week was seeing a buddy from ye olde boyhood years. I hadn't seen him for more than three ...
Read More A boy’s story
In the end, we are story as much as we are anything. This is one reason why it works so ...
Read More Great laughter
It’s the other day and we laugh about it, Jon and myself, because we had just been fishing at the ...
Read More Grieving Robin Williams. His bus rides home.
The scene is a snowy one and there is a bus travelling down the road. And as the bus roars ...
Read More The strange death of Godwin Chepkurgor, and saying a prayer for an African marriage.
Getting married, not to mention being a journalist, in Africa has its cultural quirks, and dangers, as evidenced by the ...
Read More Why we share even the painful stories (Excerpt #3 – Forgiving our Fathers and Mothers)
We’re still putting our feet up —it is summer after all – skimming without hurry through Leslie Leyland Field’s book, ...
Read More Let go of your life. Be surprised.
From my last post here, the only thing left to say is that while Jon's birthday cake was finely decorated, My Bride ...
Read More Why I should be named Son-in-Law of the Year
I was on the phone this morning and got the question – again – ‘so what’s it like being married ...
Read More Celebrating an old life lost. And a young one with joy.
By the time I came home that day there were already six vehicles in front of the tiny condo that ...
Read More Germany wins World Cup on remarkable Froese Family anniversary
I had given my large German flag to my father some time ago, a gift for him to, with a ...
Read More Germany wins! But my face is still so (im)perfect
It was the Ungame and this time the question was for Jon: “Describe your father in three words.” “Big nose,” he ...
Read More Hannah and the Good Neighbour (Excerpt #2 – Forgiving our Fathers and Mothers)
It’s Hannah’s turn now for a few days of Daddy Time and we’re up on a lake near Owen Sound, ...
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