Author: Backpacking Dad

My great fear as a parent is that I will fail. No, that’s too trite. My great fear is that despite an intellectual commitment to raising my children in as thoughtful, respectful, joyous and diligent a manner as possible, I will instead harm them with those thoughts and beliefs that remain hidden from the world,…

I heard a rumour that there was a place in San Jose with a giant rubber duck sitting on the roof. Because Erin is a duck fiend…   …I knew that I was going to have to bring her to see this canary canard. Attention! Alliteration Ahead! Apparently, an acrylic aquatic avian adorns an awesome…

Friday was a good day. I managed to squeeze in a workout and feed my daughter to the ducks. Er. Carefully set my daughter down in an area where many ducks were. We went to the San Francisco Zoo, me and her, this explorer, intrepid adventurer daughter of mine. She was very excited about it….