The following piece has been submitted by one of my closest mates, Ken, one of my Band of Brothers locally here.
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I went lap swimming with my 12 year-old daughter a few weeks ago.  As I huffed and puffed through my laps in the ‘medium’ lane, my daughter Dani backstroked her way up and down in the [...]

There’s this bloke. He’s a very very good mate of mine. He and I played in a band in the early 90’s - we formed the rhythm section: he played bass, I played drums. Even wrote a song together. (Damn fine song too!).
To protect his identity (coz I don’t have his permission to use his [...]

When you’re running low on time-to-think or time-to-write, do what the best TV show writers do (you know TV writers, the ones on strike?):
Do a Best-of episode…
Among my friends’ blogs are pieces of buried gold. Gold that I want to unbury. And then buried in this ‘ere blog are some less-valuable pieces of silver of my own [...]

Folks, meet Warren Lain, Warren is a great mate of mine, though he lives across the ocean in California. He’s also a musician and music teacher. We’ve gotten to know each other via Facebook and conference calls.
He hasn’t asked me to post about him and I’m not receiving any kickbacks. I just believe in singing [...]

I used to hold in low regard several men I know who just don’t play with their kids.
Most of them are parents of my sons’ friends. One of them - after I had taken his son and mine out to two parks in one afternoon - scratched his head and said to me, “Thanks. I never [...]

Wanna hear my voice? Wanna hear Bad Dad’s? Wanna hear them together in the same podcast? You know you do!
Head over to BadDadRadio for Episode One and Episode Two today and be watching for Episode 3 (The Revenge of the Sith or something like that). Coming soon.
Download it, put it on your ipod and take [...]