Author: Backpacking Dad

If you tell a joke and nobody gets it, but a tree falls on a mime, is it a good day? Ya lost me.   So "Buy this vacuum" wasn’t the most obvious of references. And  nobody got it (although a couple of people got the concept right without knowing the origin). Someone still gets…

I still can’t quite believe that it ever happened. I kind of remember the flight to JFK, and walking around New York, and taking my shirt off a couple of times in what they assured me was a photographer’s studio. My surreal memories notwithstanding I have confirmation that I really did go to New York…

"When you disparage, demean, trivialize, mock, or patronize the parenting of fathers, whether from afar or in the very act of their parenting, you are resuscitating the stilling world of damaged gender role stereotyping that ought to vanish into history. Ma’am, respect male parents as parents, refrain from the cheap humour made available by our…