By now, you probably have discovered that I do a lot of improvisation. Sometimes it works out (like finger love). Other times, it doesn’t (see finger of doom). My most successful, I think, has been Air Five. In case you don’t remember Air Five, it’s a way of “high five”‘ing your child from a distance. […]

Just got back from a camping trip where, among other things, we spent a couple days camping at Stone Mountain. The first morning, I cooked up a quick breakfast (camp eggs) and we set out to climb the mountain. The trail is not overly strenuous at its beginning, but it gets pretty steep. At the top, […]

The fireworks this past fourth of July were amazing. As usual, however, we managed to be one chair short. Now I understand that in most families, being short a chair doesn’t affect the dad. With us, however, I’m the one who ends up on the blanket. That may sound like I’m complaining, but I’m not. […]

Today’s tale is in the Chronicle. Click here to read it! Terms for Searchers: Tonsils, Parade, Flag, Eclair.

If you’ve been reading for a while, you may remember the Finger of Doom. If not, here’s a quick refresher. In the beginning, the game was called Slow Poke. It was something I started, and it was a really bad idea. You can read about it here. Some time after that, the combination of Slow […]

Today’s Tale is in the Chronicle. Click here to read it! Terms for Searchers: Racism, Martin Luther King, Davy Crockett, good guys, bad guys, shot

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We have a strict rule in our house: no one gets up before 6:30am. Our two boys sleep in the same room. It’s the oldest’s job to make sure that no one leaves that bedroom before 6:30am. Though he hates the restriction, he likes the responsibility of being the clock reader. Yesterday morning, however, was […]

As some of you know, this past year brought with it the discovery of genetic heart problems in my wife and kids. Currently all is well, but for a while things were extremely tense, as we received one misdiagnosis and bad test result after another. We did the best we could to keep things from […]

[This one is a major break from the DaddyTales philosophy. It’s as much about me as it is about the kids, but it ended up with such an incredible moment, that I wanted to share.] We watched the Secret of NIMH Saturday evening. It’s a great movie adaptation of the book Mrs. Brisby and the […]