October 2009

The Last Thing You Want to Do is Date Your Wife

“But we can still date, she says, like this is supposed to cushion the blow. I mean, I got married so I could stop dating, so I don’t see where ‘we can still date’ is a big incentive, since the last thing you want to do is date your wife…”– Billy Crystal as Harry Burns [...]

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The Live-in Boyfriend, The Monkey, and The Books

For much of my life, we had no TV. When we finally got one, it was a tiny black and white set with a wire hanger antenna and broken knobs. Therefore, my main form of entertainment was reading. I loved going to the comic book store with my cousin. We’d spend hours perusing the boxes [...]

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Daddy Talk

My friend, Eric, who writes the blog, Makes Me Wanna Holler, recently interviewed me about fatherhood. He posted the interview on his blog, but I want to share it with my readers also because it will give you some insight into why I started this blog and why I love being a dad. Eric: How [...]

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Taxicab Confessions

When I walked outside into the frigid Canadian air, I saw a slender, brown-skinned man leaning against a taxi. “Did you order a cab, sir?” he asked. “Yes, I did,” I said. He grabbed my bags and tossed them into the back of the van. I quickly slid into the van’s passenger seat to get [...]

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Parent Teacher Conferences

I recently attended parent/teacher conferences at my kids’ school. I went solo while my wife, KayEm, stayed home with the kids (they were off for a school holiday). Of course, she gave me a written list of questions to ask because she doesn’t trust my ability to gather appropriate information and convey it back to [...]

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Lover and a Fighter

My 2-year-old son X packs a punch. His older brother, N, and teddy bear, Tex, both found out the hard way. N was X’s first victim. X doesn’t suffer fools well and N was doing something that displeased him. X tried screaming, but N wouldn’t stop his annoying behavior. After a while, X could take [...]

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Comments For a Cause: Domestic Violence

As you may know, October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Here are a few more statistics about Domestic Violence, from a 2008 CDC survey: 23.6% of women and 11.5% of men reported at least one lifetime episode of intimate-partner violence. In households with incomes under $15,000 per year, 35.5% of women and 20.7% of men [...]

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Let’s End Domestic Violence: A Challenge to All Fathers

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Here are a few domestic violence facts from Click to Empower: Each day in the U.S., three women die as result of domestic violence. More than one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. More than three out of four Americans know someone who is or [...]

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