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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I am a very lucky guy. Not only did I get to marry my best friend, but from that love my wife and I were blessed with two awesome daughters. I never knew how I would be as a father. People have told me that I would make a great [...]
Man, I could read these dad humblebrags all day long and I wish I could have included all of them in this post because they are so good and uplifting (and funny, like Brad's at the bottom of this post). Please go read through the entire Facebook thread where dads [...]
I grew up on food stamps and welfare. I have no shame about it and learned very quickly at a young age the power of having and saving money. School didn’t teach me a damn thing about money! My dad, experiences and books did that [...]
There are impressive bags of startling hues under my eyes - I think they’re here to stay. I have some unidentifiable stains on my shirt, the same shirt that I might have worn yesterday - I’m not sure. There’s a saccharine sing-song tone to my voice that was never there [...]
