Now for something a bit different… Below is a note I wrote on the morning of the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Its my reflection of the 10 years that have passed. A friend of mine reminded me about it, and gave me the […]
Five weeks in. 852 hours to be exact since I’ve met my son. He’s my second child, and second boy. I should be ecstatic right? A man having two beautiful boys to raise? Boys to teach fishing, skating and football? Then why am I not excited? Did we make a mistake having a second child? […]
This video was sent to me by a friend as he was announcing his wife was pregnant. It started out hilarious. Slowly it turned into disgust, then anger. You see, My wife and I have been through 2 miscarriages, and months of failed attempts at getting pregnant. Luckily we succeeded and have two beautiful boys […]
It’s been a couple weeks since my last post, but I don’t feel the need to apologize because I am also the father of an 8 day old son, I’m sure most of you will understand. Needless to say I’ve been busy. Now that I am back, I want to post about the experience my […]
As people continue to clean up the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and the television and Twitterverse continues to report the horrible stories and images of the Superstorm, I hope you’ll find an escape in this post. While the brunt of it has passed, the residual storms continue to rain on us on the east coast […]
Now for something completely different. This blog I created is called Dad Under Fire, Fatherhood and Fire fighting both take courage. Well so far I have posted about fatherhood, but today I want to focus on fire fighting. I have promised you in the past, that if I write a blog that could be upsetting to my […]
This past Summer I was trying to find new things to do keep my 3 year old happy and busy. As we all know happy and busy lead to happy and sleepy, which in turn leads to happy and nappy. I take pride in still being able to get my son to nap because it […]
Hot topic time. As my wife and I come closer to the birth of our second son (My wife is 38.5 weeks along now) we also come closer to one of the most challenging times in a person’s life. Challenging for our newborn as he starts a long journey of learning how to do everything… […]
As I reflect back on the first 3 years of fatherhood, and I look forward to my next son, I’m reminded of the things I learned early on. I have written them down here as a list of my top 5 pieces of advice for new dads. Why 5? Well there are plenty more, but […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ve undoubtedly read the name “Amanda Todd” in the news. I don’t know if I have ever seen a topic so seemingly divided in opinion and heated debate like I have seen in these on-line discussions. I debated even blogging about this because of […]
Dad Under Fire 