Ya wanna know something? Something that might come as a surprise? I wasn't always the six-foot, 210-pound (that's right, I said 210-pound - I'm still carrying some holiday weight) former soldier and current daddy blogger you read here. No, I...

...Playing with knives His request came out of nowhere. We were killing time at his old brother's soccer practice screwing around in the woods by the soccer fields. He picked up a stick and began chopping at the trunk of...

DadLabs is one of our favorite sites; the guys from Austin have been doing great videos on fatherhood for a while, and so when they asked me to join forces with them and the guys from DadWagon, why, of course...

Are you thinking about jumping into the vast and ever-expanding Dadblog Universe? Over at her blog ABDPBTWTFOMGBBQR2D2C3PO (sp?), Anna Viele offers some suggestions to would-be daddybloggers. She does DadCentric a solid: "Soon after you have been recog...

Is what you got. "Dad," he said. "Devo is playing the Olympics." This is good and bad. Having reared my children on Devo, I somewhat consider it a good thing. But knowing how they have tried to justify the corporate...

We gather and sit around the table, a ring linked by blood and history. Side by side by side, tied to one another by memory and plotlines and subplots twisting and intertwining and fading in and out of focus, decades...

The next day, I took Lucas to his first sparring class. This was a big step. He hadn't embraced the martial arts like we thought he would: rather than the steely-eyed focus of a Crouching Tigercub, there was fidgeting, and...

No, I’m not talking about gambling. I’m not much of a gambler, although I recently bought Powerball tickets the last few weeks here in my home state of North Carolina because the jackpot had gotten up to a staggering $141...

I see your Stephen Baldwin, Whit, and I raise you one former mulleted pop-country one-hit wonder turned juvenile flesh peddler. You probably know more than you want to know about Billy Ray's daughter Miley, she of the Teen Choice Awards...

Last week I wrote a heated post about the current state of dadblogging. My better angels have prompted me to reach out to new dadbloggers who may be looking for advice on how to make their blog posts stand out....