Author: Backpacking Dad

I think I'm supposed to write something about Happy Holidays and cherishing family and joyous wonder, peace and equality and respect and resist consumerism and do good works and what are my hopes for the New Year. Suck it I'm going to Disneyland for Christmas. In fact, I'm next door right now and if it…

That place, that well-spring of violence and condescension, of fevers, earaches, scratches, bruises, tears, blood, and No, God Please Don’t Bring Any Juice, is, after all, not entirely evil. Erin is actually learning some things in the daycare environment that are not pounded into her by older kids or grown from the seeds sown by…

One of the great recreational activities for kids on the Island, and on much of the Rez it seemed, was to ride ATVs. Four-wheelers and three-wheelers seemed to be everywhere. The kid down the road from me had a full-on Fat Cat motorcycle. I had a ten-speed. Someone else’s ten-speed. I think it was my…