Monthly Archives: November 2010

Why Daddy Drinks–Reason No. 3: The Photo Shoot

Posted on November 27, 2010 by

Digital cameras and photography have been a boon to parents. I mean, it used to be that we were limited by 12-, 24-, or 36-exposure rolls of film and we had to be extremely careful about parsing out the few … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Guilt

Posted on November 24, 2010 by

I don’t feel like a very good Dad. Not in the macro sense because I think I have done pretty well. I just feel a little guilty about the way I feel right now. For Thanksgiving, we will pile in … Continue reading →

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Shakespearian Music, Indeed

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

And when she smiled all you thought about Was running up Suicide Hill And nothing short of a bullet Could have broken your will –Ron Hawkins/The Lowest Of The Low “For The Hand Of Magdalena” As I write this, I … Continue reading →

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Teaching The Important Things

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

With all due respect to Chris Rock, my only job as a father is not to simply keep my daughter off the pole. I have to make sure she knows the little things in life. One day, we were all … Continue reading →

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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice!

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Today was a full-circle kind of day set to a John Phillip Sousa soundtrack: I did something with two of my three kids that I didn’t much enjoy when I was their age. I took them to one of my … Continue reading →

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