It had been dark at least an hour when the doorbell rang. I should have been asleep, but it was a Friday night, and Y107 was playing requests. My Sony jambox was just low enough that my parents couldn’t hear it over “Dallas,” and I had a blank cassette poised […]
Author: dadcation
Almost
A long time ago–in the mid 1980s–we’d sometimes walk far enough from our house that our parents could not see us. Sometimes, it’d be after dark, and we never had cell phones with us, because none of us knew what a cell phone was, but I think some of us […]
Why another blog?
I’ve been writing since 1983 and blogging since 2006. I’ve written for a military blog, legal blog, and humor blog. I’ve yet to have a dad blog–a blog I define as one on which I can write things I wouldn’t mind my children reading one day. So this is it. […]