Dadventure

Jim over at Sweet Juniper has created one of those wonderful posts that somehow manages to encapsulate exactly what being a Dad is.  A funny, sweet, sad, frustrating, and intimately poignant snapshot of a day in the life of one Dad.
I can especially relate to the moment he shares with his daughter who, after throwing [...]

If you are not familiar, the latest viral video making the rounds is David After Dentist. Briefly, Dad with video camera shoots video of son sitting in minivan stoned out of his gourd after a dentist appointment. At last count, it has over 5 million views.

Not to be the wet blanket at the party, but [...]

Oh my goodness, where do we begin with this? This type of world view is so far out of whack with my own that it is hard to take it serious enough to comment on this point of view. But I’ll give it a shot.
Apparently the preacher in the video, Mark Driscoll, is some kind [...]

In the city/province/country where I live, November 14th, 1997 will always be an infamous day. It was the day a 14 year old girl named Reena Virk was beaten and killed by a group of (predominantly) teenage girls. It was a brutal story and one that thrust the issue of girl violence into the spotlight.
This [...]

Feeling like my Dad mojo is returning. Good thing, too, cause I realized I was quickly turning into the kind of 70’s era Dad that Sweet Juniper uncovered in an old forgotten Dad book, the kind of which should probably remain forgotten.
Some things never change, however. I still get tired well before the kids [...]