: About Me

Introducing....me...well, I'm a big guy. I say that because most people tell me I am. Most people also look at me with that suuuure look when I say that I'm a writer. But, that being said, a writer is what I am. I write poetry, short stories, am working on a novel (which may possibly, someday, hopefully, with the right alignment of the planets) be finished.

The light of my life is my wife, and the amazing gifts that she's given me in our three daughters...although the older two have just discovered makeup (see broke Dad here).

I am stubborn, can be abrasive, don't mind offending people, but would give you my shirt if you asked. I'm the rare conservative who sees the value in opposing viewpoints, and I've never smoked a day in my life (well not a whole day anyway)

That's me in a nutshell...although it would have to be a big nut...do you have anything in a 52?

My passion is ...

a drawn out argument

I know too much about ...

Star Wars...way too much about Star Wars

My parents always told me ...

I'd be a lawyer

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

That little quiet time I had with each of my girls when they were born

Why I write ...

my head is to full...it spills on my keyboard

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm reading the civil war, watching the Backyardagains, and listening to Nickelback

My first job ...

4 miserable weeks of picking the potato

My best moment ...

Getting a chance to talk to my Dad like equals

My inspiration ...

Is my wife and music...she says things with her voice...

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Styles (Other) The unique joys and challenges of stay-at-home dads

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Three trips to the changing table in the space of an hour convinced me. This was a vastly different experience than the one that I thought I had signed up for. There is something about the makeup of a man that makes him genetically incapable of correctly fastening the tabs on a diaper while simultaneously restraining the vaguely child like octopus gleefully wiggling on the table below. I'd love to say that being a stay-at-home Dad while my girls were small was a conscious choice, but in fact it was a conspiracy of lay-offs and timing that turned me into the warrior with baby powder as my c...

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