Dads Give Tips For Rainy Day Fun With Kids
This is timely in my part of the world, where winter has been nothing but dark, grey and wet. Hardly any snow and even less sun. The weather has been getting everyone down so here’s a bunch of fun ideas to bring some light and happiness into your life [...]
Jamaal Charles – My Life of Dad
Jamaal Charles is known for being one of the best running backs in the NFL. Did you know that eight running backs were selected before him in the 2008 NFL Draft? Even with Jamaal having the fourth-most rushing yards at the University of Texas in just three seasons. Jamaal never [...]
GIVIN’ ME DADDITUDE: Perceptions of stay-home fatherhood.
Back in the long, long ago. When I was a younger, more enthusiastic, obliviously optimistic dad, the idea of being a stay-at-home parent seems to me to be the most natural, fantastic adventure. Obviously now, as I’ve just clocked up two years of SAHD-ing, things are different; I’m older, probably [...]
A Newborn’s Rough Landing
On Tuesday, 12/27/16, at exactly 4:44 pm, my son Zacharias Kazuki (風月) Rivera (ZKR) was born. My wife began the process of labor the night before. Around 11 pm she told me that she thought her water had broke. You wouldn't believe this, but I really didn't think she [...]
There Are No Limits Or Strings Attached To Our Fun
As my kids get older I find that we are always on the go. Whether it is taking one of my kids to karate class or another to choir practice my wife and I are always in the car. Sometimes the schedules are not perfectly aligned and we find [...]
Playlist Elevated – New Music, Old Music, Good Music #37 —- LVL UP
INTRODUCING YOU TO BANDS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, BUT TOTALLY SHOULD. LVL UP Every time I saw the name LVL Up, I mistakenly assumed the band was going to be similar to The Advantage or Megadriver. One of any number of bands that take video game music and transform them into [...]
