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I feel like I’m waking up from some kind of dream/hallucination in which I had major surgery to remove my appendix while 4 months pregnant; went to two Thanksgivings; celebrated my husband’s 30th and my 29th birthdays; took care of a child with a cold and a double ear infection; wrote a statistics paper and [...]

Megan, Hazel, and I all love the library. We typically have about half a dozen books out at any one time, which makes me proud. I always wanted to live in a big, old house with packed-to-the-gills bookshelves in every nook. And while we don’t live in that house yet, I can [...]

The cast of characters here at From Here to Paternity just keeps growing and growing. No, Megan isn’t pregnant again and no, we haven’t gotten a third cat or a first dog. I’d like to introduce the Internet to my dear friend Super Orange the Sock Monkey1. And my word, what doth [...]

A few weeks ago I was contacted by TastyBaby.com to represent the Dads of the Blogosphere! by writing some content for their upcoming Father’s Day celebration.  Honored and goony with delight, I took the opportunity to write another sonnet: Eighty-Eight Keys to Overzealous Parenting.
Syllabically speaking, Eight-Eight scans well but don’t count on any reliable amount [...]

Greetings from sunny Chattanooga, Teneessee! The last time I was in this state, Jim, his Cherokee Territory wife (Christina), and me were ascending its highpoint, Clingmans Dome, along a snow-strewn access road under a bright midnight moon. Following this summit, Jim got really, really sick from gas station Cheetos and we hunkered down [...]

As my darling wife reports, Hazel has been a handful lately. Hazel, once a stationary baby content to sit still and rip the pages from a magazine, has become the crawling equivalent of Speedy Gonzales. And don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic that she has become such an efficient crawler. But, sometimes you just want her to stay [...]