A The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. – John Ruskin I’ve never won ...

This Mother's Day, DadCentric notes that there would be no dad bloggers without mom bloggers. And there would be no mom bloggers without the mother of them all: Columnist, author and humorist Erma Bombeck.

Thanking Maurice Sendak

“I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.” ― David Ignatow A David Ignatow’s little poem has always worried me. When I think I’m writing about someone else, say my son, am I really writing abou...

I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Ev...

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? — Joni Mitchell Lately we’ve been visiting Oregon, and Oregon has been singing to us. We found a school for Nick, after he graduates from Fer...

Dad 2.0 Summit in Austin, TX recap: There is Crying in Blogging

I have been a devoted fan of writing since my heady days in the third and fourth grades when a few friends and I took pencil to paper to create our own (illustrated!) series of Choose Your Own Adventure stories and Doctor Who fan fiction (chicks dug us...

My entry for the first crusader challenge over at Rach Writes is finished. I had to introduce myself in 300 words or less within the following parameters. I had to tell one secret, one lie, one personal quirk, one annoying habit, one of my best charact...

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."       - Vladimir Nabokov"Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of pa...