A few months ago I wrote about what my wishes were in the event of my untimely death. My wife made me write it because she knew members of my family might have trouble with some of it, and she was right – they weighed in. I will say my brother Mike had an awesome [...]

My wife posted an excellent homemade ice cream recipe on her Florida blog. Her mother and grandmother made it at every summer gathering – yum! I love the idea that my daughters are learning traditions that have passed from mother to daughter for generations. I’m not sure how much of that goes on anymore, but [...]

I never had an allowance when I was a kid. Chores were treated as pilgrimatic (is that even a word?) – you know, no work, no eat? Prior to 10 years old, if I needed to earn money Dad made a list of “extra” chores over and above the usual chores and assigned a value [...]

Since I’ve been consumed trying to turn my brothers into blog-stars and basically ignoring everything else, I figured I might take the lazy way out highlight some great posts by my increasingly-blogified family: Da’ Wife: The awesomest chocolate pie recipe ever. Girls just wanna be pop-stars. Da’ Kid: Mustang Poem Da’ Bruddas: Utah vs. Michigan: [...]

My 9-year old is teaching herself to use GIMP, and created this little animated gif for this blog on her desktop. Can you say proud daddy?

My 9-year old is scaring me. Not only is she teaching herself to use GIMP and creating 3-D animated movies, she’s starting to check out my blogs. Which means she could very well find her way to a nearly dormant blog with completely inappropriate content. Today, she saw the license-plate in the sidebar and popped [...]

While watching the Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus Best of Both Worlds concert, the show gets to the high-heel race some radio station put on for the Dads to win 4 tickets to the concert, and backstage passes. These guys went all out, raced hard, sacrificing their bodies, just to get a priceless memory for [...]

Ok, sorry for this dark post on a Saturday, but my wife is making me put it in writing because she thinks people might not agree if she does what I want. I’m not normally bothered by celebrity deaths, but Tim Russert’s is really hitting me hard for some reason. Making me think of my [...]

Yay! I’m back FLA for a whole 24 hrs! It was supposed to be about 30 hrs, but Delta canceled my flights and tried to reschedule me to get in late at night. Um no, I booked a 7 am flight for a reason, getting in after 9 pm isn’t going to to work on [...]

Last week, my 6-year old was being evil in church. Finally, I had enough and took her out of there (yes, I know she got what she wanted but it got to the point where she was physically injuring people next to her). The punishment was appropriate, and I also asked her to write a [...]