The Modernish Father

Last week included Ash Wednesday, the one day of the year when us Catholics get to really freak out our co-workers. The Wife, who was raised in one of those assorted Protestant cults, admitted that she was somewhat unnerved by her fellow officemates who had gone to mass during lunch and reappeared with mysterious dark splotches [...]

I usually don’t participate in memes or chain e-mails, but since this is a still a shiny new blog and I’m pretending that there might be people who don’t know me that are reading it, I’ll make an exception to the rule and go ahead and do one. This meme in particular was also done [...]

The past week has been spent primarily dealing with the plague that seems to be sweeping through our town. After witnessing everyone at The Boy’s school and my work come down with the fast-acting flu, it was our turn last week. The Boy, The Wife and I all had our fill of producing incredible amounts of snot [...]

The Wife was itching to finish painting the walls in our extra bedroom (which we are now referring to as “the baby’s room”, even though there is no baby), so I volunteered to take The Boy out and about. It was a mixture of about 50% trying to be helpful and 50% cabin fever from [...]

I failed to mention the enormous indignity heaped upon me when I dropped The Boy off at school after his dental appointment the other day. It’s a shining example of how no matter how good of a father you are, 99% of women you don’t know assume you’re a deadbeat.

The Boy had his first trip to the dentist’s office yesterday and due to my flexible work schedule, I was elected to take him. After years of dreading dental appointments of my own, it was a unique and odd sensation to be sweating out someone else’s. My fears were unfounded though, as The Boy pulled [...]