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This is love, yo (a Poem for my kids – but not yet)

I recently posted this to twitter and reposting it in an easier-to-read format. I wrote this about being a dad to two teenagers. Maybe...

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Riding in Cars with Budding Adults

My 8th grade daughter was talking with me tonight in the car. It seems like the car rides are when the best conversations with my kids...

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Don’t Come In

When else am I going to be able to use an image like this? It’s a mother, not a father, but we do have the same hair. I feel like the...

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Letting Go

Maybe if I tattoo my kids’ faces on my arm…. This morning I sent my son off to Freshman year in high school – at 6:42 in the morning to...

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A Tribute to Fathers who “Work It”

You don’t have to be a father (or even a male) to be that “go-to” person for someone in your life – a special someone, a friend,...

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Attachments

My wife left me and my house almost a year ago. When people left my life in the past, I used to internalize it to the point where I had...

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Leaving Your Old Life Behind

I have been deliberately not thinking about the future lately – or at least my future. I think a lot about my kids’ futures – will...

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Are you at the right bus stop?

We moved in 2006, only a couple of miles away, but to what felt like a completely different neighborhood. My son was in kindergarten and...