It’s always been about conversation. In the beginning it was conversation among Brad, Troy and me. Every Monday night for years we’d meet in the maintenance shed of the school where we worked (Brad had the key) to have a beer or two and talk about maybe going into business together, ...

Have you experienced the panic of the pink plus sign on that home pregnancy test you bought six of just to be sure? Feel wholly unprepared for the responsibility of fatherhood but don’t want to seem like a flake by … Continue reading →

Somehow, I’m on the track an hour before dawn, a thick neoprene sleeve on my lower left leg, a bulky knee brace on my right. My gate is somewhere between shambling and wince-inducing. I feel like a newbie, like I did almost three years and three thousand miles ago when ...

“It’s okay. He’s just watching the other game.” -Opposing Dad A dad of a kid on my kid’s team is really working himself up, fulminating on the sidelines, lobbying the refs for a foul call against an opposing player. He’s really loud, and his accusations have clearly gotten under the skin of ...

For two-thirds of my offspring, it’s the first day of school, which has me ready to write my “How I spent my summer vacation” essay. I had the great good fortune to be able to take another extended vacation with my family this year, as I have ever year since ...

Author, speaker and all around inspiring father Jonathan Fields joins us for this month's edition of Digital Dads Exposed. Related posts:Digital Dads Exposed / Scott Leonard Digital Dads Exposed / DJ Waldow...

Conan O'Brien's folks ask average fathers to strap on their mandles and get ready to rumble.

My first Father’s Day…its always special because in most cases you still have a “baby." There was no real extravagant gift that I got that day, but just the fact of knowing that it was my first real father’s day made it special for me. Whether ...

If you’ve ever been cheated on, wondered why the guy never calls when he said he would, or can’t seem to get past the bedroom when you start dating a guy, Rodney L. Demery’s candid book, Things My Daughters Need To Know: A Cop and Father’s View of Sex, Relationships ...

This is my best post. I’ll tell you that right now. You might smile. You might sigh. You may have to step away from your computer and touch something to make sure this is real. That something is your focal point. This post is your anchor. I am the captain ...