Almighty Dad | A stay at home dad blog

We went on a lengthy vacation this summer.  We criss-crossed the eastern and central United States and drove 5,800 miles in two and a half eeks.  On our way back to Colorado we saw a really cool van with “Space Shirts” written all over it.  The van was basically, from top to bottom, a big advertisement for Space Shirts.  I said to myself, “whoa, that’s[…]

My six year old has a frontal lisp when pronouncing words with S or Z.  I did a little research on how to correct the problem and I discovered that the information available pretty much all involves therapy.  Well, call me old fashioned, or modern, or whatever really, but I don’t like therapy for anything apart from major mental problems (reference Charles Manson).  Of course, I would have[…]

My boys and I went to the park today.  We climbed a tree, threw a boomerang, and did the swings.  My six year old, out of the blue, asked, “How does the echolocation kid find his way home?”  Wow, I guess kids do that.  One second you think they’re just swinging and staring at the clouds.  Then they hit you with one of these million dollar questions. […]

This is a subject that I feel quite comfortable talking about.  I am a second degree black belt and, for a short time, I owned my own academy where I taught 130 students 6 days a week.  We offered Karate and Muay Thai.  I taught Karate to kids and to adults.  I was proud of what we accomplished, from a small business perspective, but I was more proud of what we were doing for the kids.  I saw all sorts[…]

 This is the conclusion of Memorial (parts 1, 2, and 3)…

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadethe me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the

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My dad and I had a conversation last week about the things that we were never taught in school.  Some things in life we have to learn for ourselves.  Schooling gives us the raw material to make something of ourselves.  We learn all the core subjects like math and reading, and that’s good.  It’s up to us to put those skills to good use.  People tend to think college is a[…]