When I used to think about being a father, and think hard about the dangers my children would have to face, I would have imaginary battles with the forces of evil: Superdad strikes down another drunken hockey-dad! Superdad leaps into the air to catch child falling from tree! Superdad bakes amazing pie! ****************************************************************** In 2006,…
Dadness Mortified
By way of introduction, here is one of my favourite recent stories: (Originally posted on Livejournal, February 13th, 2008) I took Erin to the park today to eat some sand. She one-upped me by chipmunking a leaf and gagging on it later. It was her first solo playdate, with an adorable little girl, T. By…
And then they made me their chief…
Welcome to Backpacking Dad. I’m an at-home dad. I have a daughter, Erin. I carry her around in my Backpack. We go on Dadventures. I’ve been writing generally in my Livejournal for a couple of years now, and there are lots of posts over there about things I will talk about here. But I decided…