So it was my daughters first birthday the other day and I decided to have a big dinner with all my peoples who have shown love over the year. Turned out to be a big group of us, 40 to be exact. It was an overwhelming feeling to see how…
Pre Fatherhood Excitement
I was asked some weeks ago to put pen to paper about my thoughts concerning my impending fatherhood. As a writer I was obsessed with writing a wonderfully crafted piece that fully described my deepest feelings and take the reader through the twists and turns of my living breathing mind!…
Scary Daddy
My daughter thinks I am scary. In actual fact, my daughter will tell you that I am the scariest person in the world. I can ask her, “What’s the scariest thing in all the world?” She’ll reply, “You are daddy.” Or more accurately, she’ll just point at me silently. This…
Father’s Day
‘Fathers never stop being Fathers, and Sons never stop being Sons’ I’ve been working on a piece I’ve called ‘Voyage Around My Father’, a series of short stories exploring my often volatile relationship with my father from boyhood to manhood. I was working on it Saturday night when I got…