Author: Backpacking Dad

It’s been an explosion of signed and spoken vocabulary up in here recently. And really, I think Erin owes almost all of her education to Rachel, Alex, Leah, and Hopkins from Signing Time. It is not unusual for the following conversation to take place: "Father, would you be so kind as to operate the remote…

I need to know something. I took a day off today, which meant, as usual, that Erin went to daycare and I went on a bike ride and watched a movie. The bike ride was great; the movie was average. I seem to have a special ability; a sixth sense. Whenever I abandon my daughter…

I climbed the stairs from the parking garage, emerging onto the street-level sidewalk next to the theater and walked toward the entrance. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better. I heard her singing and when I turned to look directly at her I wondered how I had missed…