My three-year-old son started in the Kinderkickers soccer league last week.
When you live in a small town like ours, the event resembles a barn raising.
Families arrived out of nowhere and assembled around the soccer field to cheer on their sons, daughters and grandchildren.… Read the rest
While I was definitely in the office the past few weeks, many of my peers from the Cast of Dads podcast were on vacation. After a three-week hiatus, we’re delighted to release episode 30, Back From Vacation. In addition to covering vacation highlights, we covered other important dad subjects, like:
TechCrunch underscored how Google’s latest search-story television commercial “makes having a baby seem really depressing” — thanks to all the obvious and hidden costs. True, having a baby is a life-changing event, and  it for forces you to buy all kinds of crap and choose all kinds of very expensive services, like hospital and prenatal care.… Read the rest
I love shoreside, seafood establishments with outdoor-only seating and a BYOB policy. So Laura and I went to Mike’s Seafood for a midweek date night. We enjoyed crustaceans with a bottle of Vega Sindoa Rose (not bad for $6/bottle).
It seems like everyone has at least one extraordinary, gory story involving cuts, burns or broken bones. And that’s especially true for parents, who not only carry their own battle scars, but witness and tend to the injuries of their precious children.… Read the rest
