The Life of Dad

This weekend my eldest daughter turns 4. Capital F.O.U.R. This means she's been a part of my life just as long as I was in high school. ...

When it comes to decorating for Christmas, a Dad has three major jobs: Put up the tree, string up the lights and make sure the fridge is alw...

Breakfast is a Dad's meal. We eat it. We love it. If our wives would let us, we'd name our children after it. It's the most impo...

If I ever try to climb Mt. Everest, I will consider it the second greatest challenge in my life--the first being opening our baby gate. This...

Family vacation means a lot of things to a lot of people. To Mom it means a chance to sleep in, wear less makeup and take an obscene amount ...

Most days of the year I'm required to do the backbreaking work that all dads are required to do, the kind of work that really wears us o...

In high school, most Dudes plan to grow up to be Independent Men. That's why we all take the Man's Hippocratic Oath: To ethically an...

Moms are proud of their toddlers for many reasons: learning their ABCs, recognizing family members in photos, not eating things found under ...

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."—Carl Sandburg Time is a tricky beast. At work it moves too slow. On wee...

There are three extremely important characteristics that all dads must have: strength, health and the ability to slide around a tag at home ...

It's normal to occasionally question your parenting skills—like when you realize that in the brief 4 seconds you glanced at the TV for t...

Once upon a time there was a living room filled with nothing but a comfortable couch, a coffee table, a few pieces of artwork and a large TV...

How we trained Ella to understand and successfully participate in Opening Day. With Opening Day around the corner, I decided it was time t...

Some days you wake up walking on sunshine, while other days you wake up fit to be tied. And some days you wake up with your child's snot...

On the Things-That-Are-Difficult food chain, changing a diaper falls somewhere between wrestling a bear in Boston and convincing that bear t...

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the day I asked Brittany , my squishy pride and joy, to be my girlfriend. It was a magical day that...

There are a lot of things I don't understand in this world. I don't understand why scaring someone cures the hiccups. I don't ...

Men and women have brains that function differently. I know, this isn't exactly late-breaking news, but it's still worth mentionin...