When choosing my favorite songs about dad’s, I took into account what genre of music I should focus on, what themes should I consider and what artist’s should I pay homage to. Ultimately, I voted for the songs that touched me the greatest. Here they are, enjoy: 5) ” Father and Son” by Cat Stevens Yeah, I [...]

On each of the 30 days leading up to Father’s Day, Life of Dad will feature a different incredible father from around the world. Today we introduce Oren Miller, the man behind  www.bloggerfather.com.  Oren is married, and the stay at home dad to two kids, Liam (4) and Madeline (2). I really became a father [...]

Captain’s Log.  Daddy Chronicles.  Diaper Date 1709. Serious post. Today is a big day. The Diaper Dweller turns one.  This compact hurricane of havoc is a joy in our life and a pleasure to watch.  Today is an awesome day and I can’t tell you how thankful the Captain is for it to be here.  [...]

“Daddy!!!! I… Want… To…. Play….Your….Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaame!” Maybe I should have known from the get go that it was a bad idea to introduce my son to Modern Combat 3 for Android. That was probably the first mistake. But in my own defense, it’s a killer game, it works on the Samsung Galaxy, and it was keeping [...]

There are 30 Days until Father’s Day.  Each day until then Life of Dad will feature an incredible father from around the world. Up first is our interview with Russ Jones, the brilliant mind behind www.thestayathomer.com.  Russ has a great wife, and two kids, Noble (6) and Alistair (2.5).  In addition to being a great [...]

Name of beer:  Koko Brown Brewing Company: Kona Brewing Company Brewing Location: Kona, HI Type of Beer: American Brown Ale – ABV: 5.5% – IBU: 28 Beer Description: From website: “A Nut Brown Worth Cracking” – Is there anything more iconic of the lush tropics than the coconut? The delicious heart of this island treasure [...]

If you  don’t know, I’m a programmer. I was downsized in ’06 and I started a programming consultancy out of my house.  Now I stay home with my triplet seven year olds and singleton five year old.  It worked out great and I’m making about the same as I was when I was fulltime corporate [...]

Synopsis: With a rag-tag crew at his side, and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz to the much coveted Pirate of the Year Award. It’s a quest that takes our heroes from the shores of exotic Blood [...]

  Here is the same letter in real text, if it is easier to read…   May 14, 2012 Facebook, Inc. Attn: Mark Zuckerberg 1601 Willow Rd. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Dear Mark, I wanted to thank you for all of your hard work on Facebook, which has changed the lives of parents and families [...]

Here is the 2nd round series that everyone is looking forward to because these teams don’t like each other and add the fact that towards the end of the season when they played Metta World Peace or I still call him Ron Artest elbowed James Harden after a dunk.       So that just [...]

I guess the Spurs are well rested because they finished off the Jazz last Monday in a four game sweep and the Clippers won the series with the Grizzlies in 7 games. This will be the #1 seed versus the #4 seed matchup. We’ve heard since the start of the season that the San Antonio [...]

A blast from the past.  Here is the Mother’s Day video I did two years ago.  Look how young my baby girl is! And Lucy, I love you more than ever…    

My son, Tucker’s, life began very normally, but that all changed very quickly as he was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome at about 36 hours after birth. But this post isn’t as much about Tucker as it is my wife, Dena. Tucker was our first child and we had so many plans for our [...]

This is the other 2nd round matchup in the Eastern Conference. This is the 4 seed Boston Celtics versus the 8th seeded Philadelphia 76ers. The Celtics just finished off the Atlanta Hawks in 6 games and the 76ers beat the 1 seeded Bulls in 6 games also. That is the 5th time an 8 seed [...]

I’m generally not an anxious person, in fact, sometimes my wife will tell you I’m too relaxed. However, there were ten seconds last Sunday that almost got the best of me…We were dropping Holden into a pool for the first time. It wasn’t that I feared my son would drown, or melt, or be allergic [...]

Check out this letter I wrote to Ms. Judy Galbraith, Founder and President of Free Spirit Publishing, the creator of the “Best Behavior Series” of children’s books.  Got any additional titles you might recommend they add to the series?  

Every kid has dreams. I’ve even heard that some kids dream in rainbows, and only have happy thoughts of unicorns and daisy’s. But what happens when those dreams go awry? For a boy, those inappropriate dreams are often all too familiar, and start about the time he notices that boys and girls are indeed different. [...]

      Here is the first match-up in the 2nd round of the playoffs. This will be a 2 vs. 3 matchup, with the Heat finishing the Knicks off in 5 games and the Pacers finishing the Magic off in 5 games also. I know most likely the “experts” will think the Heat will [...]

This Mother’s Day will be really tough for me. Back in March of this year I lost my mother to cancer. She fought a strong battle against breast cancer, but in the end her cancer took her away from me, my dad, and my family. She had been battling the disease for a few years. [...]

Name of beer: 2011 Smoked Porter Brewing Company: Alaskan Brewing Company Brewing Location: Juneau, AK Type of Beer: American Porter or “Smoke Beer” – ABV: 6.5% – IBU: 45 Beer Description (From website): Style: Smoked Beer. Known as “rauchbier” in Germany, smoke-flavored beers were virtually unknown in the U.S. until Alaskan Smoked Porter was developed [...]

With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, this shout has to go out to the mamas. Us dads realize that being a father would not be possible without all of you fantastic moms out there. On behalf of all dads worldwide, I thank you ladies for the following: 1. Agreeing to conceive babies with us. 2. Carrying [...]

For those of you who have a yard, do you enjoy mowing it? Is it your own private punishment, your hell on earth? Or is it your escape, your pride, your weekend project? For me, it’s the latter. When I was growing up, mowing was a chore and I HATED it. But since we bought [...]

My Daughter Zoe turned 10 this week. She’s truly a unique person. Watching her grow up has been a complete and utter joy. She’s everything you could hope for in a kid. She’s thoughtful, well mannered, curious, and brave. She doesn’t suffer fools, but is a friend to all. Zoe rises above the drama, and [...]

Greetings Life of Dad community! I am so happy to see all the Dads signing up to the first social network for fathers, on a daily basis.  There’s no place like this on the Internet.  I’m also excited to see guys joining us who are about to join the ranks of fatherhood, the new Dads. [...]

Captain’s Log. Daddy Chronicles.  Diaper Date 1698. It was standardized test week in the Captain’s neighborhood.  In honor of the week the Captain has helped to develop the first ever standardized test for dads.  We shall call it the Daddy Aptitude Test Evaluation, or D.A.T.E. for short.  Get your pencils ready.  Here we go: 1.  [...]

If you follow sports and specifically football you know about the news of Junior Seau committing suicide, by shooting himself in the chest, not before texting his ex-wife and kids saying “I Love You.” I’ve been watching football since I was around 7 or 8 years old, I also began collecting sports cards and he [...]

Yesterday I came home from the university around three o’clock in the afternoon. April said she would be home after class around one thirty. I unlocked the door to our apartment with one hand, rolled my bike into the apartment with the other, and after a flutter of helmet, keys, shoes and sweatshirt, found the [...]

We sent our son away last week… All he’s been doing is laying around, drinking, and sleeping. He’s been up late every night, and then when he finally passes out, he’s still up every few hours dinking again.   If he doesn’t get what he wants, he just starts crying. It was getting embarrassing, really. My [...]

Except for my mother, I grew up in a house full of dudes, even the pets. With two brothers and a steady roster of dogs, that’s a lot of sticks and berries.  So naturally the younger dudes and I learned only the necessary life skills – meat eating, yard mowing, shaving, snake handling – from [...]

Yeah, I know, Hate is a strong word. We are taught as children that it is a word that we are never to use, along with fat, ugly and stupid. Well, I don’t care about all that now because I have to tell you sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, that I Hate Garage [...]

John Fabris is the Deputy Editor of the Orange County (California) Register.  His April 6, 2012 article entitled, “Dad’s top 20 tips for taking kids to a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game” are tips any Dad can use this summer when taking their kids to experience America’s pastime, not just an Angels game.  [...]

My daughter is currently a sponge.  Anything I can say, she can say worse. She tries, but it just doesn’t always come out right, because she’s only two. However, every now and then, she annunciates a new word perfectly, and today was one of those days. Our family of five was taking a walk, and [...]

Call it the perfect lining of the solar system. One of those “New Moon” type nights or whatever. My wife and I were lucky enough to score some pretty solid seats to yesterday’s Tom Petty show. With that, we encountered a small problem. One of our past babysitters (my mom) was attending the same show. [...]

Ponies or dinosaurs? Tea parties or Tonka trucks? Dodger blue or…well, Dodger pink?  I was asking myself these questions as I sat in the waiting room at the doctor’s office.  My wife Jessica was sitting next to me, patiently waiting for her name to be called.  It was ultrasound day, and we were just minutes [...]

Dear Tommy Boy, Happy 5-month birthday! You’re my first son, my namesake, and you’re already more handsome than I’ll ever be.  I’m really glad you don’t have my ears, which I didn’t grow into until college. Listen, man.  Bro-ski.  Dude.  Brother.  Son.  Pal.  T-Bone.  T-Pain.  T-Dawg.  Fella.  Yep, those are all names I call you.  [...]

 Mother’s day is coming up and have you guys planned on what you will be doing for Mother’s Day? In no way do I think I am an expert on all things women, but I have some inside information. As a stay at home dad, I mostly hang out with mothers during play dates or [...]

What did I expect when we were expecting? I’d be better off writing about what I didn’t expect when we were expecting.  That would be pretty much everything actually.  I AM a guy after all, which means I can only focus on one concept at a time.  And by the time my internal queue reached [...]

When I first found out that I was going to be a father it was shocking. It’s not that it wasn’t planned, but more the reality of the life changes that I, my wife and now a baby would go through. I spent my hours contemplating these changes, never once wanting to change them, but [...]

…it began. As we prepare for the birth of our second kid (Baby Brother DiMarco, due May 19th) I’ve been looking back on what was going through my head while we were waiting for the birth of Gummi (kid one’s pre-birth code name.) Step into the Time Tunnel with me as we journey way back [...]

I have been trying to teach my daughter to wave. I say goodbye, wave, step out of the room; I step back in, say hello, wave. This is because a friend’s baby kept waving at me and I got jealous. I think Grace doesn’t wave because we never leave her. My wife is always with [...]

Captain’s Log.  Daddy Chronicles.  Diaper Date 1690.  It is coming.  The premiere of The Avengers – filmed in the Captain’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.  Stop snickering.  We were an All-American City.  A bunch of times.  And yes I know the river caught on fire, our football team was stolen by a city that had their [...]

I’m very grateful today.  Last night was Life of Dad’s Stand-up Comedy Night benefiting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Friends came out for the event.  Families were there.  Some of the best and funniest comics in the country performed, talking fatherhood. That’s right…all of the comics are dads, and most of the audience were parents. I [...]

After nearly 10 years in this house, I finally got sick of staring at a tick-infested backyard. It’s time. I’m not much of a green-fingered DIY-er, but I have something more important than knowledge: I have a slight, temporary, momentary, fleeting feeling of this thing called motivation. I have the urge. And I better do [...]

Dear Mr. Keurig, I know the prevailing trend in society is to write a letter only when one wants to complain. That is not my intention. I’ve always envisioned myself as a trend setter anyway. In fact, I once told a whole fraternity that I hated Dave Matthews. Anyway, the point is my letter is [...]

Name of beer:  Raspberry Brown Brewing Company: Lost Coast Breweries Brewing Location: Eureka, CA Type of Beer: American Brown Ale – ABV: 5.0% – IBU: 22 Beer Description: From bottle: A chocolate Brown Ale with the essence of ripe red raspberries, made with malted barley, chocolate and caramel malts, hops and natural raspberry flavor. The [...]

I didn’t want to write this letter, but I had to.  This will be mailed to the president of Disney Junior this morning.   Here’s the letter in regular text…   Dear Members of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, You probably don’t know who I am, but I know exactly who all of you are. Mickey! Minnie! [...]

My daughter is turning 2 years old this week and recently went from her crib to a “Big Girl Bed”. My wife and I tried to make the transition as easy as possible. We made sure she had a step stool to get into the bed, a night light so she wouldn’t be scared and [...]

Greetings Life of Dad Community! Welcome to The Beer Guy’s 4th week of writing beer reviews and responding to reader mail. By now, most of you have realized that the beers being reviewed are not your normal, run-of-the-mill beers.  That’s right, most of the beers receiving reviews are created by craft breweries or microbreweries.  What [...]

If you are a parent and you live in the Los Angeles area, then Sunday, April 29th is a night that you do not want to miss… It’s Life of Dad’s first ever comedy night, featuring some of the best comics around, who all happen to be fathers. The lineup includes: Tony Alfieri Gil Rief [...]

We’ve been looking to adopt a dog for a couple of months now, and had applied with a great organization called the Southern California Labrador Retriever Rescue. They came out to inspect our house about a month back, and now we were waiting for the perfect dog to be matched with us.  The great thing [...]