What a mixed bag independence is. I’ve been writing a lot, lately, which is great. I’ve been reading a lot, lately, online, which is also great, despite the internet being an unrelenting source of every kind of unsolicited parenting advice you could ever not have asked for. I promise to try my best to curb(…)
It is morning and the sun’s nimble digits have just started to part our blinds. It is Sunday, so I can’t be at the keyboard long since my Mini Me’s are already up and raring to go terrorize the neighborhood playground. But I bought myself a moment with a single orange sheet of construction paper,(…)
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Dear Rap Music, I’ve been known to throw my hands in the air and wave em like I just don’t care. I used to hit up your shows and you could often find me in the club, bottle full of bub, where, if your beat thumped enough and your hook looped just right I could be enticed(…)
…then it’s gotta be for a good cause! #DadsRun4Boston Sometimes a horrific tragedy can both necessitate the need for, and materialize an example of, community. So in a “two birds, one stone” sort of way, I will leave you with the words of some of my most admired dad blogger friends and a humble plea(…)
There is awesome and then there is aweSOME, and then there is Mike Adamick’s Dad’s Book of Awesome Science Experiments, whereby awesome becomes an AWESOME understatement. Timelapse=60 Seconds Of Awesome! Experiment #7 ‘Colored Leaves’ When my daughters grow up they will be rocket scientists or astrophysicists or bioengineers. I have already decided. Of course they will(…)
The toddler daughter watched the baby tip the glass beaker over. There was a towel on the table so nothing broke. The tapered beaker top just thudded once and its food-colored water bled out and spread out against the white like so many gunshot wounds in action flicks my daughters won’t be watching til’ they’re(…)
You wake each day, pre-dawn, for those Six seconds to yourself A hurried cup of bergamot Then to the pantry shelf With master-crafted alchemy You, quickly, stealthily Make magic (out of shit I’d miss) And always healthily! But sometimes one’s door creaks too soon The toddler’s up at dawn! The baby starts to stir(…)
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