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I love Just Daddy Time

I had just sat down to put my lenses in this morning when I heard the opening of a door. There are only three closed doors inside our house and one of them is in the Okapis’ room. I turned to see who was coming. It was my little girl.
“You okay?
“Yeah,” she said, but she […]

A little Tuesday morning heartache

Oh right. I remember this feeling, this sadness, this aching feeling in my heart at leaving my family after a three-day weekend. I woke up this morning completely unsettled and I couldn’t quite figure out what was going on. Of course I don’t want to go to work, but honestly I have made great strides […]

What will I regret more?

I feel like the summer has passed me by this year and it is sad. Primarily because of my situation at work and recently because of working on the bathroom, I have taken almost no time off this summer and we haven’t been to the beach or gone camping or done much of anything fun […]

Feeling my music and just trying to focus a little

It’s when I am standing on the train platform, needing to dance that I know something is going on with me – especially since I spent a couple hours last night checking out music on iTunes and buying a whole bunch of new music. My emotions are building, expanding within me, the pressure rising to […]

Maybe we need a little Los Tres Amigos every night

“I don’t care about Daddy’s sickness. I care about Daddy!” my little girl cried out from her bedroom on Tuesday night. “I want Daddy!”
Unfortunately, Daddy had been completely knocked down by a nasty fever, hot enough to almost scald my hands as I held them against my face while I tried to sleep after I […]

Macho Macho Daddy

I made big progress this weekend on becoming even more the kind of man I want to be. This weekend, I demolished our downstairs bathroom with my brother-in-law. Knocked off the tiles, ripped out the walls and took out the sink, toilet and bathtub. I had never done anything like that in my life and […]