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Feb 11, 2025
Reading in the Dark
Feb 11, 2025
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I Had This Strange Urge to Share a Moment of Connection With a Random Parent
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Jan 22, 2025
I Got My First 8 Tattoos Over the Holidays
Jan 22, 2025
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Jan 22, 2025
I Had This Strange Urge to Share a Moment of Connection With a Random Parent
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
Vacationing With Your Kids Can Feel Like Traveling Back in Time
Jan 1, 2025
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Nov 22, 2024
Summer Parenting Is Often a Winding and Bumpy Road
Nov 22, 2024
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Nov 22, 2024
How Music Shaped My Debut Novel
Nov 22, 2024
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Sep 4, 2024
5 Sleepover Mistakes to Avoid If You Want to Stay Married
Sep 4, 2024
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Sep 4, 2024
The Great Playground Demolition
Sep 4, 2024
Sep 4, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
The Chaotic Loneliness of Parenting
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
2025
Feb 11, 2025
Reading in the Dark
Feb 11, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
I Had This Strange Urge to Share a Moment of Connection With a Random Parent
Feb 11, 2025
Jan 22, 2025
I Got My First 8 Tattoos Over the Holidays
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 22, 2025
I Had This Strange Urge to Share a Moment of Connection With a Random Parent
Jan 22, 2025
Jan 1, 2025
Vacationing With Your Kids Can Feel Like Traveling Back in Time
Jan 1, 2025
2024
Nov 22, 2024
Summer Parenting Is Often a Winding and Bumpy Road
Nov 22, 2024
Nov 22, 2024
How Music Shaped My Debut Novel
Nov 22, 2024
Sep 4, 2024
5 Sleepover Mistakes to Avoid If You Want to Stay Married
Sep 4, 2024
Sep 4, 2024
The Great Playground Demolition
Sep 4, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
The Chaotic Loneliness of Parenting
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
I Had COVID and Also Fell Down the Stairs
Aug 28, 2024
Mar 13, 2024
I Had the Weirdest Job Interview Ever
Mar 13, 2024
Mar 13, 2024
My 7-Year-Old’s OSHA Complaint
Mar 13, 2024
Mar 13, 2024
Report: 8-Year-Old Shocked to Learn Local Dad Knows the Song “Love Story” by Taylor Swift
Mar 13, 2024
Feb 26, 2024
How My Poor Eyesight Entertains the Masses and Mortifies an Optical Store Clerk
Feb 26, 2024
2023
Nov 3, 2023
The World is a Trash Heap So It Might Be Time to Break My Most Sacrosanct Internet Rule
Nov 3, 2023
Oct 20, 2023
It’s October So I Guess It’s Time to Wake Up
Oct 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023
I Almost Survived Volunteering at the School Book Fair Without Having an Existential Crisis
Oct 20, 2023
Sep 29, 2023
YouTube Taught Me That My Life’s Passion is Changing Bicycle Tires
Sep 29, 2023
Sep 14, 2023
My Best Friend: The Crossing Guard
Sep 14, 2023
Aug 31, 2023
Skate Night Is Back and It's Still Gloriously Chaotic
Aug 31, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
This One Time at Band Camp
Aug 29, 2023
Aug 20, 2023
The Indignity of Using an Umbrella in the Sun
Aug 20, 2023
Aug 10, 2023
School is Back… Now What?
Aug 10, 2023
Jul 31, 2023
Breaking Curfew with Illegal Fireworks and Other Beach Adventures: Part 3 of a Summer Vacation Diary
Jul 31, 2023
Jul 24, 2023
I Completely Botched the Surf Report and Other Musings from the Beach: Part 2 of a Summer Vacation Diary
Jul 24, 2023
Jul 21, 2023
I Went to Buc-ee’s and the Beaver Made Me Leave My Soul Behind so My Body Could Walk Free
Jul 21, 2023
May 24, 2023
I Never Expected I’d Become a Plastic Straw Kleptomaniac
May 24, 2023
May 19, 2023
Congratulations to All the Participants but I Have Once Again Won the Colonoscopy Contest
May 19, 2023
Feb 22, 2023
How to Fill the Space When Children Grow Up and Artificial Intelligence Takes Over
Feb 22, 2023
2022
Aug 30, 2022
Discovering Shame and Regret at the Bottom of a Popcorn Chicken Container in a Grocery Store Hot Case
Aug 30, 2022
Jul 26, 2022
For Better or Worse Another Summer Slips and Slides Away
Jul 26, 2022
May 21, 2022
Are You a Leaf or a Dead Bat?
May 21, 2022
Apr 26, 2022
The Bunnies and the Bees
Apr 26, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
Sometimes a Walk in the Woods Is All You Need
Mar 22, 2022
Feb 10, 2022
When Your Child Has a Chronic Illness, It Changes Everything
Feb 10, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
The Quiet Can Be Deceiving When You’re Parenting at the End of the World
Feb 7, 2022
2021
Dec 3, 2021
Eventually, the Parenting “Lasts” Begin to Outpace the “Firsts”
Dec 3, 2021
Dec 2, 2021
It Seems Like Milestones Aren’t What They Used to Be
Dec 2, 2021
Dec 2, 2021
Sometimes Tiny Yellow Wildflowers is Exactly What You Need
Dec 2, 2021
Sep 16, 2021
Unicorn Wallets, Tea Parties, and Brain Fog
Sep 16, 2021
Aug 31, 2021
What This Messed Up Start to the School Year Needed Was a Little Hoppiness
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 17, 2021
We’re Going to Have to Slow Down and Take This School Year One Day (or Hour) at a Time
Aug 17, 2021
Jul 19, 2021
News Flash: Kids Can Change Quickly
Jul 19, 2021
Jun 24, 2021
How My Son and I Are Growing Up Together This Summer
Jun 24, 2021
May 17, 2021
If You’re Struggling With Homeschooling a Preschooler, You’re Not Alone
May 17, 2021
Apr 15, 2021
How a Tiny Dog Helped Me Find My Way
Apr 15, 2021
Apr 5, 2021
How Emptying Sand Out of My Son’s Shoes Signals a Return to “Normal”
Apr 5, 2021
Feb 15, 2021
A Short Car Ride with My Son Reminded Me How Difficult This Past Year Has Been for All of Us
Feb 15, 2021
Jan 11, 2021
My Little Flock Flies in Formation
Jan 11, 2021
2020
Dec 15, 2020
This Season Is All About Finding a Little Joy and Humiliating Our Neighbors
Dec 15, 2020
Dec 1, 2020
I’m Taking the Wins Anywhere I Can Find Them During This Crazy Year
Dec 1, 2020
Oct 18, 2020
Fine, I’ll Write About Distance Learning Again
Oct 18, 2020
Sep 3, 2020
There's No Joy in Pandemic Life, But There Is a Rainbow Owl
Sep 3, 2020
Aug 18, 2020
We're Really Not In This Pandemic Together
Aug 18, 2020
Aug 12, 2020
My Children’s Imaginary Hair Salon Won’t Last Forever, But I’m Glad It’s Still Around
Aug 12, 2020
Jul 26, 2020
Our Favorite Things During a Pandemic
Jul 26, 2020
Jul 18, 2020
My Children Won't Be Returning to School in 2020
Jul 18, 2020
Jul 1, 2020
Our Bedtime Puppet Shows Might Not Win Any Awards, But I Blame the Pandemic
Jul 1, 2020
Jun 19, 2020
Big World Events and a Fatherless Father's Day
Jun 19, 2020
Jun 13, 2020
This Is Going to Be a Weird Summer
Jun 13, 2020
May 9, 2020
A Pandemic Mother's Day
May 9, 2020
May 1, 2020
Trying to Find Small Adventures to Keep Us Sane
May 1, 2020
Apr 22, 2020
How I’m Navigating Quarantine
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 4, 2020
Mourning the Little Things on My Son’s Sixth Birthday
Apr 4, 2020
Mar 30, 2020
Bewildering Bedtime Conversations
Mar 30, 2020
Mar 16, 2020
Parenting and Reading in the Time of Coronavirus
Mar 16, 2020
Mar 11, 2020
Empty Birdcages and Oddly Profound Homework Sessions
Mar 11, 2020
Mar 9, 2020
A Night of Family Fun at Universal Studios
Mar 9, 2020
Mar 1, 2020
My Daughter and I Took Our Doll Show on the Road
Mar 1, 2020
Feb 17, 2020
Decluttering, Painting, and Preschool
Feb 17, 2020
Feb 4, 2020
A Return Visit to the Fall (Wait...Winter) Fair
Feb 4, 2020
Jan 27, 2020
I’m Your 3-Year-Old and All I Ask Is That You Memorize This 10-Page Dialogue for My Toys in the Next Two Minutes
Jan 27, 2020
Jan 21, 2020
Chasing One Last Rocket Launch with My Dad
Jan 21, 2020
Jan 14, 2020
It’s Impossible to Freeze Moments in Time, Even If You’re Practically Living in the Frozen Movie
Jan 14, 2020
Jan 5, 2020
It Can Be Very Rewarding When Your Child Doesn’t Follow in Your Footsteps
Jan 5, 2020
2019
Dec 26, 2019
A Very Frozen Florida Christmas
Dec 26, 2019
Dec 20, 2019
Totally Convincing Explanations for Why the Elf on the Shelf Didn't Move Last Night
Dec 20, 2019
Dec 8, 2019
When Writing Starts to Feel Like Homework
Dec 8, 2019
Dec 2, 2019
How to Master School Car Line Drop-Off and Establish Dominance Over Your Fellow Parents
Dec 2, 2019
Nov 26, 2019
My Kids Just Don’t Understand How to Be Sick
Nov 26, 2019
Nov 18, 2019
Is Parenting as Hard as Being Blown Up?
Nov 18, 2019
Nov 10, 2019
Why Dads Should Volunteer at Their Children’s School
Nov 10, 2019
Nov 3, 2019
My 3-Year-Old Can Make the Moon Move
Nov 3, 2019
Oct 27, 2019
It Took Growing Up and Having Children for Me Learn to Love Halloween
Oct 27, 2019
Oct 20, 2019
Giving My Middle Child a Few Moments in the Spotlight Was So Worth the Effort
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 13, 2019
Parenting Slumps Can Be Spooky
Oct 13, 2019
Oct 7, 2019
I Sign My Kids Up for Activities for Me
Oct 7, 2019
Sep 29, 2019
I Talked to a Stranger at the Park and I Guess I’m an Extrovert Now
Sep 29, 2019
Sep 22, 2019
Sometimes Back-to-School Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
Sep 22, 2019
Sep 15, 2019
I Write About My Children Because My Memory Is So Unreliable
Sep 15, 2019
Sep 8, 2019
When Do I Stop Writing About My Kids?
Sep 8, 2019
Sep 4, 2019
Waiting for the Storm to Pass
Sep 4, 2019
Aug 25, 2019
Travel Back in Time and Other Next-Level Parenting Advice for Parents Who Aren't Satisfied with Good Enough
Aug 25, 2019
Aug 18, 2019
How Many Dishwasher Cycles and Car Line Drop-Offs Make Up a Life?
Aug 18, 2019
Aug 12, 2019
Vacationing with Kids Means Sickness Is Almost Inevitable
Aug 12, 2019
Aug 4, 2019
I'm a Parent but I Still Do Interesting Things
Aug 4, 2019
Jul 21, 2019
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Starring 5-Year-Old and Dad
Jul 21, 2019
Jul 14, 2019
Surviving Summer with Young Children Is All About Letting Go of Control
Jul 14, 2019
Jul 8, 2019
My Children’s Stubborn Commitment to Ritual Can Be Frustrating, But I Admire Their Resolve
Jul 8, 2019
Jun 30, 2019
Sometimes Family Bike Rides Aren't as They Appear
Jun 30, 2019
Jun 24, 2019
We've Graduated: After More Than Seven Years, I’m Done with Diapers
Jun 24, 2019
Jun 17, 2019
The Tree and the Honeysuckle Vine
Jun 17, 2019
Jun 10, 2019
First Family Beach Day Means Summer is Here
Jun 10, 2019
Jun 3, 2019
Sibling Bike Riding Rivalry
Jun 3, 2019
May 28, 2019
How Youth Sports Helped Me See the World From My Children's Perspective
May 28, 2019
May 20, 2019
They Say You Should Meet Your Children Where They Are, I Think
May 20, 2019
May 13, 2019
The Upside of Sick Days
May 13, 2019
May 6, 2019
Our Family Flies Kites, Kind Of
May 6, 2019
Apr 29, 2019
The Hardware Store and a Butterfly Experience: The Ultimate Suburban Florida Weekend
Apr 29, 2019
Apr 22, 2019
Soccer. It’s in Our Blood.
Apr 22, 2019
Apr 15, 2019
Let’s Keep Raising the Bar for Dads
Apr 15, 2019
Apr 8, 2019
Can’t Miss Sights and Activities in London or Random Things We Did with Our Kids?
Apr 8, 2019
Apr 1, 2019
And Still, We Rock On
Apr 1, 2019
Mar 25, 2019
Q and A with Gary M. Almeter, Author of The Emperor of Ice Cream
Mar 25, 2019
Mar 23, 2019
Stepping Back in Time and Reflecting on Life’s Different Chapters
Mar 23, 2019
Mar 20, 2019
An England Adventure - Part I: Knott in a Rush
Mar 20, 2019
Mar 11, 2019
My Daughter Threw Up in Walgreens and Now I’m a Drug Store Nomad
Mar 11, 2019
Mar 5, 2019
How Writing Makes Me a Better Parent
Mar 5, 2019
Feb 27, 2019
Two Days and Nights in San Antonio
Feb 27, 2019
Feb 18, 2019
Maybe Dirt Isn’t My Parenting Kryptonite Anymore
Feb 18, 2019
Feb 11, 2019
The Losing is Bad, but the Taunting is Worse
Feb 11, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
This is Two
Jan 29, 2019
Jan 21, 2019
Do I Have Time for This?
Jan 21, 2019
Jan 14, 2019
Exorcising Chuck E. Cheese Demons
Jan 14, 2019
Jan 9, 2019
Beware of Dentists Bearing Gifts
Jan 9, 2019
2018
Dec 18, 2018
The Importance of Finding a Park Beside a Railroad Track
Dec 18, 2018
Dec 12, 2018
The Art of Making My Son’s Bed Without Being Found Out
Dec 12, 2018
Dec 5, 2018
The Art of Taking Pictures in Front of Other People’s Decorations
Dec 5, 2018
Nov 19, 2018
A Walk in the Woods
Nov 19, 2018
Nov 12, 2018
Show-and-Tell? More Like Show-and-Dominate.
Nov 12, 2018
Oct 29, 2018
Bare Minimum Parenting with Author James Breakwell
Oct 29, 2018
Oct 22, 2018
Reconnecting with My Mountain Roots: Day 2
Oct 22, 2018
Oct 15, 2018
Reconnecting with My Mountain Roots: Day 1
Oct 15, 2018
Oct 8, 2018
At Long Last, Hide-and-Seek Competency
Oct 8, 2018
Sep 25, 2018
Driving by Houses in Cars: Passing Down a Favorite Pastime
Sep 25, 2018
Sep 18, 2018
I’ve Never Juggled Bowls While Riding a Unicycle, But I Do Have Children
Sep 18, 2018
Sep 11, 2018
The Miracle of Petty Competition
Sep 11, 2018
Sep 3, 2018
A Tale of Two Treasure Hunts
Sep 3, 2018
Aug 20, 2018
I Changed a Flat Tire, So I Can Do Anything Now
Aug 20, 2018
Aug 10, 2018
A Different Kind of First Day
Aug 10, 2018
Aug 9, 2018
Sometimes Parenting is a Train Wreck
Aug 9, 2018
Aug 7, 2018
Tell Us What You Did This Summer
Aug 7, 2018
Jul 18, 2018
Did We Start the Fire or Not? (First Concert Memories)
Jul 18, 2018
Jul 10, 2018
Fulfilling Our Destiny: A Solo Road Trip with Children
Jul 10, 2018
Jun 27, 2018
Sameness
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 19, 2018
A Pop Song, a Volcano, and a Frog
Jun 19, 2018
Jun 12, 2018
Spending Quality Time With My Kids is Great, But Fatherhood Sure Can Be Awkward
Jun 12, 2018
Jun 5, 2018
The End of the Day
Jun 5, 2018
May 30, 2018
Waiting is Overrated: A Day at the Beach
May 30, 2018
May 23, 2018
Landscaping with Children: An Update
May 23, 2018
May 9, 2018
Dirt is My Parenting Kryptonite
May 9, 2018
May 1, 2018
Technological Jealousy: A Dad’s Lament
May 1, 2018
Apr 25, 2018
Puppets to the Rescue
Apr 25, 2018
Apr 17, 2018
Eight Years of Tired
Apr 17, 2018
Apr 11, 2018
Landscaping With Children: A Cautionary Tale
Apr 11, 2018
Apr 5, 2018
How I Overcame My "Super Dad" Complex (via Fatherly)
Apr 5, 2018
Apr 2, 2018
To My Second Born on His Fourth Birthday
Apr 2, 2018
Mar 30, 2018
Glitter, Buttons, and Other Stories from This Week
Mar 30, 2018
Mar 23, 2018
A Good Walk Toiled
Mar 23, 2018
Mar 12, 2018
The Things We Carry
Mar 12, 2018
Feb 26, 2018
Tips for Surviving the Obsessive Stage of Toddlerhood (But Mostly Reflections on the Trolls Movie)
Feb 26, 2018
Feb 14, 2018
What's in a Name?
Feb 14, 2018
Feb 11, 2018
One Night in New Orleans
Feb 11, 2018
Feb 6, 2018
And Then There Was One
Feb 6, 2018
Jan 30, 2018
Cereal and Sweet Tea: On the Difficulty of Picking Your Parenting Battles
Jan 30, 2018
Jan 26, 2018
So, Yeah, I’m Heading to New Orleans Next Week for the Dad 2.0 Summit
Jan 26, 2018
Jan 22, 2018
How Al Fresco Dining Can Help Save Your Sanity (for Like 30 Minutes)
Jan 22, 2018
Jan 18, 2018
Kids are Right: We Should Celebrate the Little Things
Jan 18, 2018
Jan 14, 2018
I Went to a Brewery for the First Time and It Is My Thing Now
Jan 14, 2018
Jan 12, 2018
Rewards Schools Could Use to Motivate Introverted Kids
Jan 12, 2018
Jan 4, 2018
Nighttime in December
Jan 4, 2018
2017
Dec 21, 2017
The Measure of a Year
Dec 21, 2017
Dec 18, 2017
Win at Yolf and Avoid Being Ridiculed by Strangers Passing By
Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017
A Few Facts About My 3-Year-Old's Teacher
Dec 18, 2017
Dec 11, 2017
I Found Out Why People Still Go to Malls
Dec 11, 2017
Nov 30, 2017
An ER Visit and How My 6-Year-Old Reminded Me I Wasn’t a Terrible Parent
Nov 30, 2017
Nov 22, 2017
We're In the Thick of It
Nov 22, 2017
Nov 15, 2017
Nov 15, 2017
Nov 10, 2017
My Middle School Was Named After Andrew Jackson and That’s Not the Worst Part
Nov 10, 2017
Nov 2, 2017
The First Rule of Lego Club
Nov 2, 2017
Oct 30, 2017
How to Buy a Car When You’re an Introvert
Oct 30, 2017
Oct 27, 2017
Simplicity vs. Connectivity: Parenthood and Childhood in the 80s and Today
Oct 27, 2017
Oct 16, 2017
The Unexpected Anxiety of Fall Festival Season
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 13, 2017
How a Ubiquitous Parenting Mantra Can Mess With Your Head
Oct 13, 2017
Oct 9, 2017
I Took My Kids to Story Time at the Library and It Has Forever Changed Me
Oct 9, 2017
Oct 6, 2017
Family Dinner or Wild Bachelor Party?
Oct 6, 2017
Sep 28, 2017
The Power of Siblings
Sep 28, 2017
Sep 27, 2017
My 3-Year-Old's School Is Scheduled to Arrive This Week
Sep 27, 2017
Sep 26, 2017
What Is It That I Do Again?
Sep 26, 2017
Sep 21, 2017
Baseball and Other Boring Things
Sep 21, 2017
Sep 18, 2017
Thoughts on Riding Out Hurricane Irma in Central Florida With Three Kids
Sep 18, 2017
Sep 12, 2017
When the Little Moments Outshine the Big Ones
Sep 12, 2017
Sep 6, 2017
Raising a Practical Jokester
Sep 6, 2017
Sep 5, 2017
Green Day Concerts and Facebook Likes
Sep 5, 2017
Sep 1, 2017
Will It Be Beautiful There?
Sep 1, 2017
Aug 29, 2017
My 3-Year-Old's School Obsession Bubbles Over
Aug 29, 2017
Aug 24, 2017
What Are We Doing to Our Boys? A Clown’s Story
Aug 24, 2017
Aug 21, 2017
Parenting Your Way Through a Zombie Apocalypse With Author James Breakwell
Aug 21, 2017
Aug 19, 2017
I'm Beginning to Suspect My 3-Year-Old is Living in an Alternate Timeline
Aug 19, 2017
Aug 17, 2017
Sometimes Long-Distance Relationships Work: An IRL Anniversary
Aug 17, 2017
Aug 14, 2017
Busting Signs and YouTube Videos
Aug 14, 2017
Aug 8, 2017
School Days
Aug 8, 2017
Aug 6, 2017
Row, Row, Row Your Boat, In the Right Direction, Preferably
Aug 6, 2017
Jul 31, 2017
Finding Nirvana Through Carvana
Jul 31, 2017
Jul 24, 2017
The Rock
Jul 24, 2017
Jul 19, 2017
We’re Running Out of Time
Jul 19, 2017
Jul 11, 2017
A Turtle Doesn't Run Through It
Jul 11, 2017
Jun 23, 2017
Amazing! You Can Make A Camera From Everyday Household Items That Takes Real Pictures In Just 7 Easy Steps
Jun 23, 2017
Jun 17, 2017
Fatherhood Reflections on Father’s Day
Jun 17, 2017
May 25, 2017
To My Little Girl on Her First Birthday
May 25, 2017
Apr 28, 2017
Parenting With Social Anxiety
Apr 28, 2017
Apr 17, 2017
Two Dads Converse in the Parking Lot While Dropping Their Preschoolers Off for Puppet Day
Apr 17, 2017
Apr 11, 2017
Baby Care Plan and Schedule
Apr 11, 2017
Apr 3, 2017
The Rocking Chair
Apr 3, 2017
Mar 14, 2017
7 Ways That Dad Whose Kids Barged in on His BBC Interview Could Improve His TV Performance
Mar 14, 2017
Mar 13, 2017
Life Imitates Art
Mar 13, 2017
Mar 2, 2017
Boxing Days
Mar 2, 2017
Feb 24, 2017
How to Travel With Young Children
Feb 24, 2017
Jan 30, 2017
How to Answer Important Questions When You Have More Than One Child
Jan 30, 2017
Jan 26, 2017
January Round-Up
Jan 26, 2017
Jan 18, 2017
What I Will Tell My Kids About Trump
Jan 18, 2017
Jan 11, 2017
The Handshake That Launched a Presidency
Jan 11, 2017
Jan 4, 2017
Top 7 Toys for Infants in 2017
Jan 4, 2017
2016
Dec 22, 2016
2016 Year in Review
Dec 22, 2016
Dec 6, 2016
The Portable North Pole App: Now You Can Get Your Kids to Behave by Scaring Them With Santa Right on Your Phone!
Dec 6, 2016
Oct 12, 2016
My Four-Year-Old and I Have At Least One Very Important Thing in Common
Oct 12, 2016
Sep 26, 2016
An Open Letter to My Children: People May Try to Lie to You About Our World, Don’t Believe Them
Sep 26, 2016
Sep 9, 2016
Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just About to Light Myself on Fire Inside a Wal-Mart
Sep 9, 2016
Sep 2, 2016
Just a Few Everyday Discussions With My Four-Year-Old
Sep 2, 2016
Aug 25, 2016
Parents Take Three Kids Under Age Five to the Science Center and Pretty Much Survive!
Aug 25, 2016
Aug 15, 2016
When You Just Have to Bolt
Aug 15, 2016
Aug 9, 2016
My 4-Year-Old Asked My Mom About the Can of Coke in Her Refrigerator and Basically Cut Her Off at the Knees
Aug 9, 2016
Aug 3, 2016
Waiting
Aug 3, 2016
Jul 26, 2016
What We Send Our Preschooler to School With on Theme Days Versus What the Good Parents Send
Jul 26, 2016
Jul 21, 2016
How to Sleep Train Your Baby
Jul 21, 2016
Jul 11, 2016
Fatherhood: Dispatches From the Early Years
Jul 11, 2016
Jul 6, 2016
Apparently My Four-Year-Old’s Preschool Classmate Found a Bunny on the Playground and I Don’t Know What Is Real Anymore
Jul 6, 2016
Jul 4, 2016
Personal Fireworks Ranked
Jul 4, 2016
Jun 27, 2016
Some of My Two-Year-Old's Favorite Activities
Jun 27, 2016
Jun 20, 2016
Lost in Translation
Jun 20, 2016
Jun 13, 2016
When the Nightmare Comes to Your Backyard
Jun 13, 2016
Jun 6, 2016
Fun Things to Do With Your Newborn
Jun 6, 2016
Jun 1, 2016
Party of Five
Jun 1, 2016
May 29, 2016
18 Things to Do the Day You Bring Your Third Child Home From the Hospital
May 29, 2016
May 29, 2016
6 Things to Do the Day Your Wife Has Your Third Child
May 29, 2016
May 23, 2016
Brothers
May 23, 2016
May 12, 2016
May the Twelfth Be With You (Did I Do That Right?)
May 12, 2016
May 7, 2016
A Quick Note to My Sons on This Mother’s Day
May 7, 2016
May 4, 2016
The Happiest Place on Earth?
May 4, 2016
Apr 29, 2016
Me or Eeyore?
Apr 29, 2016
Apr 23, 2016
Turtle Power: Part II
Apr 23, 2016
Apr 15, 2016
Jacob the Great
Apr 15, 2016
Apr 10, 2016
Weird Food, Inc.
Apr 10, 2016
Mar 31, 2016
PRO/CON: Participating in this Ridiculous Charade of Smashing a Cake at My First Birthday Party
Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016
Reflections on Life and Performance Art on the First Anniversary of My Birth
Mar 31, 2016
Mar 25, 2016
Turtle Power
Mar 25, 2016
Mar 18, 2016
Poop on a Stick
Mar 18, 2016
Mar 11, 2016
I Took My Two-Year-Old for a Walk and Ended Up Corresponding With Almost All of the Presidential Candidates
Mar 11, 2016
Mar 7, 2016
Heart on a Wall
Mar 7, 2016
Mar 3, 2016
Living With Small Children: A Series of Vignettes
Mar 3, 2016
Feb 24, 2016
The All-Time Worst Sofia the First Episode
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 18, 2016
Preschool So Far: What We Know and What We Don’t Know
Feb 18, 2016
Feb 8, 2016
Daddy, I Want You
Feb 8, 2016
Feb 2, 2016
In Which I Drive a Miniature Car and It Makes Me Think About My Feelings
Feb 2, 2016
Jan 26, 2016
Fun Games to Play with Your Little Kids When It’s Cold Outside or Rainy or You’ve Given Up or Whatever
Jan 26, 2016
Jan 20, 2016
Panic at the Preschool
Jan 20, 2016
Jan 18, 2016
Guns, Children, and Privilege
Jan 18, 2016
Jan 9, 2016
Dear Sofia, I’m Really Disappointed
Jan 9, 2016
Jan 6, 2016
My 4-Year-Old's Restaurant
Jan 6, 2016
Jan 2, 2016
By a Nose
Jan 2, 2016
2015
Dec 29, 2015
Best of 2015: An Explorations of Ambiguity Year in Review
Dec 29, 2015
Dec 22, 2015
Nothing Gets Me Pumped Like a Good Haircut
Dec 22, 2015
Dec 18, 2015
Lose the Cape: Never Will I Ever (A Book Review)
Dec 18, 2015
Dec 10, 2015
House of Cards (Link-apalooza #12)
Dec 10, 2015
Dec 4, 2015
Nightmares in Parenting
Dec 4, 2015
Nov 25, 2015
In Defense of the Predictable
Nov 25, 2015
Nov 15, 2015
To My First Born on His Fourth Birthday
Nov 15, 2015
Nov 10, 2015
Bedtime Routines
Nov 10, 2015
Nov 4, 2015
ManWhoHasItAll Has It All Figured Out
Nov 4, 2015
Oct 21, 2015
How to Make the Perfect Pirate Jack-O’-Lantern
Oct 21, 2015
Oct 13, 2015
What Did We Learn This Week? My 3-Year-Old Is Better at Parenting Than I Am
Oct 13, 2015
Oct 9, 2015
Self-Inflicted Parenting Wounds
Oct 9, 2015
Sep 29, 2015
TV and Growing Up
Sep 29, 2015
Sep 22, 2015
An Imaginary Visit from Pa-Pa
Sep 22, 2015
Sep 14, 2015
Arts and Crafts
Sep 14, 2015
Sep 10, 2015
Masculinity and Lawnmowers FTW: Another Important Update
Sep 10, 2015
Aug 29, 2015
Target: The Experience
Aug 29, 2015
Aug 25, 2015
Link-apalooza #11: On Spirit Animals
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 19, 2015
Masculinity and Lawnmowers FTW: An Important Update
Aug 19, 2015
Aug 17, 2015
Green Day and Mumford & Sons…as Heard By My 3-Year-Old
Aug 17, 2015
Aug 10, 2015
Link-apalooza #10: The Dog Rescuer
Aug 10, 2015
Jul 31, 2015
Imagination Games
Jul 31, 2015
Jul 22, 2015
How to Potty Train Your Three-and-Two-Thirds-Year-Old in 21 Easy Steps
Jul 22, 2015
Jul 21, 2015
Masculinity and Lawnmowers FTW
Jul 21, 2015
Jul 14, 2015
Link-apalooza #9: Aww, Darn It!
Jul 14, 2015
Jul 6, 2015
Someone Is Watching
Jul 6, 2015
Jun 29, 2015
Link-apalooza #8: Just Getting By
Jun 29, 2015
Jun 24, 2015
Watching Airplanes
Jun 24, 2015
Jun 22, 2015
Link-apalooza #7: Of Presidents, Bloggers, and Dads
Jun 22, 2015
Jun 17, 2015
5 Boring Things Parents Love
Jun 17, 2015
Jun 15, 2015
Link-apalooza #6
Jun 15, 2015
Jun 2, 2015
Link-apalooza #5
Jun 2, 2015
May 27, 2015
Time of Your Life
May 27, 2015
May 24, 2015
Link-apalooza #4
May 24, 2015
May 17, 2015
Link-apalooza #3
May 17, 2015
May 13, 2015
Link-apalooza #2
May 13, 2015
May 10, 2015
Parenting Lessons From My All-Star Mom
May 10, 2015
May 4, 2015
Link-apalooza #1
May 4, 2015
May 2, 2015
And We'll Never Be Royals...Or Will We?
May 2, 2015
Apr 27, 2015
Money Store Man
Apr 27, 2015
Apr 21, 2015
Update and A Few Links
Apr 21, 2015
Apr 12, 2015
Hopeless Wanderers
Apr 12, 2015
Apr 6, 2015
#BigBen Strikes One
Apr 6, 2015
Apr 2, 2015
For Any Podcast Fans Out There...
Apr 2, 2015
Mar 31, 2015
Hitting the Snooze Button on #BigBen
Mar 31, 2015
Mar 28, 2015
March Madness
Mar 28, 2015
Mar 24, 2015
#BigBenRising
Mar 24, 2015
Mar 21, 2015
It's Comedy and Tragedy
Mar 21, 2015
Mar 16, 2015
6 Pointless Things I Say to My 3-Year-Old
Mar 16, 2015
Mar 5, 2015
Dispelling the Mystery: A Running Diary
Mar 5, 2015
Mar 4, 2015
A Tribute to a Person I Didn't Know
Mar 4, 2015
Mar 2, 2015
Exploring Ambiguity on the Airwaves
Mar 2, 2015
Mar 1, 2015
Shock and Awww!
Mar 1, 2015
Feb 18, 2015
Parenting 101: Learning to Let Go
Feb 18, 2015
Feb 3, 2015
The All-Time Most Unorginal Thought About Parenting
Feb 3, 2015
Jan 11, 2015
4 Reasons Stay-at-Home Dads are At a Disadvantage
Jan 11, 2015
Jan 8, 2015
Letter to My Future Self
Jan 8, 2015
2014
Dec 10, 2014
Running on Fumes
Dec 10, 2014
2013
Dec 3, 2013
On Narcissism and Social Media
Dec 3, 2013
2012
Oct 11, 2012
Some nights...
Oct 11, 2012
Sep 21, 2012
Guys know about a lot of things...
Sep 21, 2012
Sep 16, 2012
2:30
Sep 16, 2012
Sep 11, 2012
The Wait, Didn’t I Used to Have a Blog Edition
Sep 11, 2012
2011
Nov 23, 2011
JAK
Nov 23, 2011