Do you remember at what point you stopped calling your father "daddy"? I don't recall the age when?I switched to "dad", but I'm almost 100% certain I wasn't five. Recently my boy decided to try on "dad" to see how it fit, and he appears to like it. I, on the other hand, am feeling [...]
We're back from Disney, the new job starts tomorrow, and yesterday I got a chance to see the documentary that I'm appearing in this Fall. What's more, my first non-fiction fatherhood story will be published?soon as part of a collection in an upcoming book (I got the check for the article a few weeks ago [...]
"Come in the name of love." When I first heard those U2 lyrics I was very young. I knew the song was catchy, but that was about it. It would be years later that I would discover what?the song?was about, or more accurately who the song was about. It's no secret that Dr. King is [...]
Forty years ago today the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior was murdered. At varying points throughout my life I have asked older people about that fateful day. All of the responses have been similar and consistent. They have told me of an overwhelming feeling of grief, and a sense of feeling lost and abandoned. [...]
This Black History Month I had planned to write a post about the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. He is inspiring a country to forgo the status quo, look past race, and consider the best person possible to run this country. Obama has supporters from around the world who are hoping for a major shift [...]
Today Devin and I made Rice Krispies Treats. Where I'm from you're not fully invested in childhood until you have tackled the sweet gooey goodness of of RKTs. The pure simplicity of the recipe made it a favorite of parents and kids alike. I come from a time when bake sales had actual home baked [...]
Last night it dawned on my wife that living with guys is nothing like living with ladies. She lived with her mother and sister for most of her life and had no clue what it would be like to live in an apartment where she is outnumbered by dudes. Now as our boy grows and [...]
Whenever my wife and I can't figure out what we want to do on a special occasion, this one being our 5th anniversary, we go to a casino. I know this is wrong. Fortunately, we're the world's worst gamblers so we only play the slots and and we set a low budget for the amount [...]
This past weekend I had my older brothers over to the apartment to discuss family issues and shoot the breeze. Devin was excited at the prospect of having two of his uncles in his bedroom playing at the same time. My brothers were vaguely amused by Devin's annoying toys and their even more annoying back-stories. [...]
After we checked my son's temperature last night to see where we were at with the fever he's had for the last couple of days, much to my chagrin a deeply repressed memory was unlocked. I started thinking back to when I was a little guy and my mother suspected I had a fever. She would pull out the [...]
