There’s a thing about New Year’s resolutions: we don’t keep them. We make lists of empty promises to ourselves but usually the complexity of them doesn’t help them come to fruition. Back in 2010 I wrote a list of resolutions that I didn’t keep. Last year I wrote a list ...

Dear Mr. Dad: My toddler used to eat pretty much everything. But recently she’s become incredibly. It’s gotten so bad that I can’t get her to eat anything but mac and cheese, noodles, and rice. Is there anything I can do to get her back to a heal...

The garden is doing much better since adding the soil amendments to turn out clay filled dirt into good soil. The snap pea plant is the only plant from the original planting to make it and we have been loving the crisp sweet peas. So far none of the peas ...

I’ve gone and written another poem. This time it’s one for kids, so it doesn’t involve fat people or anything rude. I’d have published this as a book (you know me, I just love to self-publish) but it turns out I can’t illustrate, and the only people who can charge ...

The plants have been in the ground over a month now and we are seeing good growth with the warm weather. Our experiment with broccoli has turned out well, as a couple new florets have appeared in the last week. The tomato plants are growing higher, and just this weekend ...

The other night’s Cast Of Dads podcast was very timely. After getting all the gory details of Michael’s late night scotch induced fall and trip to the emergency room, we talked all about encouraging our kids to eat healthy. This was particularly interesting to me as I am ...