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Daddy Time
— Whenever I’m talking to women with small children, we spend a lot of time swapping stories about what our littles are doing or things that we’ve done recently with them. When I talk to guys with...
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Pants on Fire
This morning went how most go. Around 7:30 I started cleaning up from breakfast and making my daughter’s lunch, sending her upstairs to get dressed and brush her teeth. Unfortunately, it also went...
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Where Did the Talking Gene Come From?
There have been a lot of shocking moments in television history, but for me the most memorable remains the ending to part two of the 1984 miniseries V:The Final Battle. For those not as old or nerdy...
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The Perfect Comeback
The first couple of times I blew it off, not wanting to add weight to cruel words by acknowledging their effect. A few platitudes repeated about how we don’t say mean things, even if others do....
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Ashes of Eden
When I was a young kid I used to read a lot of comic books and write a lot of stories. Much like my blog posts here, some were better than others, but I enjoyed it and can’t really say for sure why I...
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A Few Less ‘Best Friends’
I thought that I was aware of most of the big “controversies”, click-bait current events that are used to fire up message boards and comments sections. The kind of stuff that provides never ending...
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Re-Learning My Mathematics
I didn’t think it would happen this soon. It’s a moment that I knew would one day arrive, but like so much else in the past six years was completely unprepared for when it did. I really thought that...
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Superman Can Wait
Mother Nature might not have agreed with what it said on the calendar, but according to her school and Six Flags New England, it was Spring Vacation that week. This was few years back. So we loaded...
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Playing Hard, Kicking Tail
We had our last softball game of the season this past weekend, Alaina’s inaugural attempts at the sport an overall success. Having bypassed T-ball for coach-pitch she still needs some work on her swing...
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Dad’s Night Out
At right around this time a few weeks ago I was preparing to spend about an hour driving in order to spend some time playing pool with a group of guys that I didn’t know. If you’re thinking that...
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Growing Old Together
The first time I saw Aaron Lewis sing live was in 2001, a small venue in Hartford with the post-grunge metal band Staind. I was there to see the opening band, a weird, somewhat goth alternative band...
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Agree To Disagree
There’s been a lot of rain around here lately but last week the skies temporarily cleared up enough for some time at the park, my daughter and her bestie finally getting the play date that they ask...
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Dads Have Always Been Doing Great Things
A few nights ago I was reading a post from my buddy at DIYDaddy about some work he was doing with something called the Dad Index, an independent survey of over 1,200 young fathers in the UK. Not...
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Party Planning Made Easy
I don’t do a lot of advice-type posts around here. No “5 ways to get your kids to do chores” or things of that nature. That’s partly because I don’t feel that people are coming here for that sort of...
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A Silent Epidemic of Abuse
Not many people probably know this, but upon graduating X-Ray school and obtaining my license I had no intentions of actually beginning a career in that profession. I enjoyed the work, liked being a...
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The Soundtrack to My Life
A little over a month ago a friend and I were traveling home from a fairly heavy rock show, Bad Wolves and Breaking Benjamin, when a song by southern rapper Ludacris came on the radio. It was about...
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RIP Chester
I got my first apartment in the summer of 1995, a small little second floor one-bedroom in the next town over. It wasn’t much but there was a balcony I could sit on and watch traffic, video and...
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A Test of Courage
It’s getting close to that time of year again. Not the foliage color change, sweater weather or the pumpkin spice invasion, although those are all coming as well, I’m talking about spooky season....
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Republicans Love Their Children Too
Way back in 1985 Sting, lead singer of the rock band The police, released his first solo album, “The Dream of The Blue Turtles.” The biggest hit single off of the record was a song called “Russians”,...
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6th Grade and the Days Ahead
We are now a week into January, along with the completely reasonable laments about how unbelievable it is that Christmas and somehow 2022 are over. What I find most unbelievable is that the first...
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