Category: Fatherhood

Downsizing, Part Deux

The nice thing about buying a car from CarMax is that if you're not satisfied with your purchase, you can return it within 5 days--no questions asked. If it turns out you don't like the color, the radio, anything...just take it back and exchange it for something else. Under our neighbor's advice, I drove the … Continue reading Downsizing, Part Deux →

Downsizing

Yesterday morning I took a good, long look at my `06 Ford Explorer. That night I traded it in. With gas prices creeping closer to the unthinkable $4 per gallon price range, I decided that it was no longer practical to drive a vehicle that gets less than 13 miles per gallon and, for the … Continue reading Downsizing →

Happy Belated Birthday!

Yesterday marked the 4th anniversary of Anthony entering our world and turning into the chaotic, fun, mesmerizing, confusing, aggravating, enjoyable, scary, outrageously fun and often nonsensical place it is today. And we wouldn't have it any other way. It was four years ago that I got that call from Ann telling me to turn around … Continue reading Happy Belated Birthday! →

The Bully

There have been a few times in my life when I’ve realized that I was now Daddy instead of plain ol’ Dave. The first such instance was when we brought Anthony home and we watched our first ballgame together a day later. As a baseball fan, that was a big deal to me. Second was … Continue reading The Bully →

S-Wii-ng, Batter!

Okay, so he was actually playing Wii Sports' golf and not baseball. In either case, Anthony has been having fun playing Wii the past few nights. He started off with baseball and realized it was more than he can chew, then he tried tennis and had the same result. Then I figured that if he … Continue reading S-Wii-ng, Batter! →