: About Me

This is the bio from my blog at www.BusyDadBlog.com:

I'm a busy dad. I'm not an enlightened new age parent, not a "Mr. Mom" and most definitely not in touch with my feminine side. Just a father of a 5-year-old son, trying my best to balance work life with my efforts to be a kick ass dad. What's a kick ass dad? I don't know. I figure it out as I go along, and as with any endeavor of this magnitude, it deserves to be documented.

I was born and raised in Boston, MA, but currently reside in Arcadia, CA, a suburb northeast of Los Angeles. I work as an Advertising Director for a telecom services company and I endure a 2 hour car/train/bus/walk/mule commute each way. That gives me less time than I'd like to play dad but a hell of a lot of time to figure out the best way to be one (and to write about it). Along with my son, I share my life with my wife of 6 years Lisa and our dog of 1 year Krypto.

A couple of vestiges of my past life have managed to stick with me in a valiant effort to maintain some semblance of a cool guy/alpha male outside of my persona as a family man. I train in Muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) and play guitar (although I'm no good yet). I wish I had a Harley, but I promised myself that if I did not have one by the time I had a kid, I would wait until he was 18 so he wouldn't have to be raised on life insurance benefits. That, and my wife won't let me

My passion is ...

Being a dad

I know too much about ...

Being a dad. And also how not to be one.

My parents always told me ...

Don't forget to practice your Chinese! (oops...)

Why I write ...

To entertain others and to have something to show my kid when he's older.

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Respeqt my Intelleqt, Qid! My son outsmarts me. More than I'd like to admit. Granted, I'm not the most worthy battle-of-wits opponent among my peers, but I've got 30 years on this kid! Not only is his logic sound, but his timing is impeccable. When Marcus strikes, it leaves this dad with no suitable recourse but to grumble incoherencies under his breath like a thwarted cartoon villain. A couple of representative moments: * * * * I'm sitting at the kitchen table trying to refill my torch cigar lighter, one of those tier-5 tasks that all of a sudden gains importance the moment you open your ...

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