Texan Bob Hruzek always hosts a good writer’s festival and this month’s was no exception. Below are links to all of the posts entered in the What I Learned from People festival. (Bob’s is the last one). Enjoy…
What I Learned from…
… Salvadore Dali, by Amy Palko at Lives Less Ordinary
… People, by Trevor Hampel at [...]

When I began to explore what I could do and achieve through a Dad Blog, one of the core aims of Freakedout Fathers was to get people smiling, especially Dads having a bad day (or a bad extended-period-of-time!). So there’s all sorts of crap on this site that serves no other purpose than that…  and [...]

Another year ended huh? I bet it’s been a doozy. You had ups. You had downs. You had victories. You had disappointments.
And so did your kids.
So, how will each of you remember it? Will you remember it? What will mark the completion of a season, what will cement the lessons learned from its events, what [...]

Holidays.
Is there a more emotive word for families? It can surface feelings of excitement and longing, or of anxiety and dread.
For some men - those who don’t live with their kids - it can also bring up some very sad or frustrated feelings.
An article I came across recently looked like a very helpful foray into that [...]

Poor little guy …
I’ve written before against the evils of Santa Claus…
Actually that’s not true. I just made fun of him. Much to the (very mild) disgust of Hula Doula (who remains a good buddy and has forgiven me for being a curmudgeon).
So I didn’t really write that Santa Claus is a dubious myth…
But someone else has. Dawn [...]

I’ve decided to mix up the Wednesdays a little and change the format today. Rather than What’s Worse, let’s be positive and ask a different kind of question…
April Groves recently asked a great question: What’s Your Theme Song?
So I’m re-asking it.
I’ve decided mine is John Mayer’s “Bigger than My Body Now“.
What’s Yours?