Almighty Dad | A stay at home dad blog

I was inspired to write about public breastfeeding  after visiting ecochildslplay.com and reading what basically amounts to a big middle finger to all those offended by it.  Well, I’m glad to say I agree with that sentiment.  I’ve heard of mothers who have been humiliated (Chick-fil-A controversy)  in public by ill informed and,[…]

Exercising our brains on a daily basis has been shown to stave off dementia in old age in much the same way physical exercise keeps bodies from atrophying.  I exercise 6 days a week.  On the seventh day I do an hour of stretching.  Until recently I hadn’t been as diligent with my mental fitness.  After all,[…]

  

  

  

Rain  

by Keith Wilcox  

  

The kids who were playing in the park were unaware of the approaching rain.  They played on, happily, on the swings and in the sand.  The older kids were in the big field playing catch.  The younger ones were making friends[…]

 

Our family is multi-cultural and multi-ethnic.  Of course, on first appearance, it’s hard to tell.  My wife is light skinned like me even though she is from Mexico.  That makes the kids white too.  So, without knowing beforehand, it’s hard to believe that my wife was born and raised in Mexico, and is ½  Mixtec Indian (Native American in other words).  That makes my kids ¼ Mixtec (Mely’s grandparents didn’t even speak Spanish until they got to school because they spoke Mixtec[…]

This is a somewhat difficult topic for me to write about, not because I don’t know what I want to say, but because it’s a sensitive subject that has the potential to upset some people involved.  It already has.  That being said, a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do.

 

I’ve always known I am adopted; it’s not something that[…]