The Daily Dad Blog

Queen Elizabeth’s 90th, C.S. Lewis, and other news from The Kingdom

So, we, the five of us, have been out of Africa for a bit, and taking the long way home ...
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Okay, so my son has the dark side in him

Okay, (still catching up here from last time), speaking of watching movies in Uganda, which we were recently with this ...
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Just call me The Daily Granddad

We’re taking the long way home. Through the UK. More to follow. Before this, through Athens. More to follow from ...
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We have a limited democracy around here

It’s dinner. The vote goes in the kids’ favour for what DVD we will watch this evening. (Dad's latest find, ...
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They’re everywhere

It’s not yet breakfast and I catch Child #1.  I bend over to her ear. “I have a secret,” I ...
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So grab death and scream “Mine!” And what does it turn into?

It’s bedtime. Liz needs to get to the kitchen to make her snack for the next day. “Dad!” she says. ...
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I’m under 11. I can play. No, really.

When it’s all over (this two-lives-for-the-price-of-one business, this travel and observing and returning home, then leaving again and looking more ...
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Friends and family

It was this morning and we had just left the kids at school. And we (my cousin and her husband, ...
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Bantleman’s nightmare, the Brownshirts, and Jesus for president

I woke up this morning and, as I often do, told my wife what I dreamed. Just a dream. Then ...
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Froese, the prodigal

The thing about working with words is that they can get tired and worn and they can lose their meaning. ...
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Winning and losing and other sacred moments

It’s morning, just past sunrise, and the youngest, Child #3, gives me a big hug at the door. “Wish me ...
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Don’t read. Don’t feel. Don’t think. (And DON’T tell the kids.)

You never know what might happen when you pick up a book, even a book that has sat on your ...
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Want an educational trip? Go to Washington!

It’s Monday morning coffee at the kids’ school, a privileged school if for no other reason than it sits in ...
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The hands of the old and the young

The last note in this space was that life is a gift and life is a mystery, both clichés and ...
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One life to live

There are New Year resolutions and most are a waste of breath because if you or me or anyone is ...
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