The Dad Life: Potty Talk

One of the major points of parenting is marking all the milestones. The first steps. The first tooth. The first word.  I’m counting down the days until the last wipe.

The Dad Life: Coach Daddy

Without a doubt, Daddy is the most important job title I’ve ever held, but Coach is a close second. Sure, coaching youth sports can be challenging, and anyone who has kids knows how frustrating it can be when they won’t listen to you – which is multiplied by 10 when you’re coaching a baseball team

The Dad Life: The Sickness

Ahh, the sounds of parenthood. The pitter-patter of tiny footsteps. The infectious sweetness of giggling children. The unexplainable-yet-unmistakable first sounds of a child who is about to vomit. The sick season is upon us, and if you have children who routinely venture outside of your house, chances are good you’ve been subjected to the joys

The Dad Life: Cooking For Kids

The avalanche of emails from New York Times Cooking usually get deleted immediately, but this one caught my eye. “24 Kid-Friendly Dishes That Can Really, Truly Be Ready in 30 Minutes or Less,” the subject line read. This is relevant to my interests, I thought, momentarily forgetting that these are the same people who told

The Dad Life: The Most Exhausting Time Of The Year

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. My fellow parents know I’m not talking about Christmas. I’m referring to the end of the holidaybreak, when everybody goes back to their little corners of the world and Mommy and Daddy canbegin the slow process of regaining our sanity.

The Dad Life: Dirty Disney

Greetings from The Filthiest … er … Happiest Place on Earth. Actually, that’s not fair. Walt Disney World is remarkably clean considering more than 50,000people visit Magic Kingdom alone on a daily basis, especially at the start of the day. But 50,000people visit the Magic Kingdom alone on a daily basis, and many of them

The Dad Life: 3 Days Without Mommy

Prayers, good vibes, happy thoughts. Whatever cosmic currency you deal in, please send a little my way. There’s nothing wrong with me, it’s just that my wife is leaving town for a few days, leaving me single-dadding with our 7-year-old son (easy) and 4-year-old daughter (uhh…not easy).

Christmas 2010: Truman’s Traumatic Travel Diary

  Hey y’all, it’s Truman. I had the day off from school Thursday, so I was going through my Dad’s bookmarks and stumbled onto this blog. I can’t believe Dad is exploiting me for a few cheap laughs. Actually, yeah, I can totally believe that. Never mind. Anyway, I thought this would be the best

The times they are a-changin’

Cleaning out the ol’ inbox this morning and ran across a BabyCenter newsletter about the things that change when you have a baby. Pretty good list, but it’s sort of the Disney version, if you will, so I decided to add some levity — and a dose of reality. Enjoy. Or recoil in horror. Whatevs.

‘Long time, no blog’ or ‘Four months of figuring out fatherhood’

So…long time, no blog. As you might imagine, I’ve been kind of busy for the past four months or so with this whole being a parent thing. And that’s exactly what brought me back to this little corner of the interwebs. I wanted to tell y’all that we’re actually doing it — we’re parents. I