For a lot of men, boobs rank pretty high up on the list of important things in life. They usually fall somewhere between establishing a successful career and owning a home. Part of the reason that men get married is so that they always have a pair around. They’re kind of like your second home by the ski lodge. You…
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A few weeks before Ava was born, I spent a lot of time in our home office, staring at the framed sports memorabilia, action figures and collectibles that I’d accumulated over the last 20 years. There were Legos and Pez, Bobbleheads, G.I. Joe’s and autographed baseballs. It was a wealth of evidence that demonstrated how I spent my free time…
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As a direct result of me being a stay-at-home Dad, I was called up from the reserves to fight in a combat situation. The grocery store. If I were to describe my shopping method before having kids, it would be tactical with a pinch of OCD. Getting in and out of the store in record time is something I’ve always…
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A lot of people think that getting a dog before you have kids is a great move. Canines certainly aren’t as complicated as infants, but they do force you to understand what it might be like to have someone depend on you and the responsibility of keeping them alive. The upside is love and companionship. The downside is being an…
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The evolution of tailgating continued after I became a Dad. What originally started as an underground subculture, had pushed it’s way into the mainstream. In high school, for me, tailgating was a couple of guys huddled around the tailgate of my ’85 Ford Ranger at the Hosensack railroad tracks, shotgunning a case of Natural Lights we stole from someone’s open…
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