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A Father’s Voice - Remembering to Smell the Roses

Welcome to A Father’s Voice for October 2007. Remembering to Smell the Roses is a reminder that despite our best intentions to help our children achieve the goals we have for them (and even for themselves), we can’t afford to forget to enjoy the journey getting there.
This was a big month. This month marks the […]

On the same team

It was a tentative conversation at first, the way it can be when two involved dads get together because you never quite know who you are talking to when you are talking to a father. Maybe he is a sensitive, involved father. Maybe he is one of those guys who don’t get it, who don’t […]

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 […]

Invitation to join the Okapi Football League

Imagine this was delivered via a tuxedoed gentleman, wearing white gloves, handing you this special invitation, beaming his radiant smile because he knows you have just been elevated to the next level, that your life is about to change forever, that you are being offered admission to one of the most elite leagues in the […]

Was being 4.5 always this tough?

“Where are you going, Elijah?” I asked my son after he had gone to the bathroom. We were all sitting at the dinner table finishing our meal.
“I’m going upstairs,” he said with a hint of attitude.
“Elijah, we’re still eating dinner. Please come back to the table.”
“But I want to be ALONE!” he screamed at me.
Me, […]

I have something to tell you, Daddy

“Daddy, I have something to tell you,” my little girl said to me last night as she stood up from cuddling next to me while we had read Curious George and the Firefighters.
“What do you have to tell me?”
“I am very, very, very sorry for behaving so badly, Daddy.”
“Well, thank you, Sweetie Girl, but why […]