Life, Love and the Absurd through the Lens of Fatherhood
So if I put shoes on you, and now, we're here at your school without your shoes, where in the hell could they be?
"I threw them out the window."
Your tiny voice took a moment to break through my exasperated parental haze.
You... did what?
"I threw my shoes out the window of the car."
To my kids- It’s been two years since I last wrote you a letter. This website began as an attempt to for my friends and I to explore questions about the passions and politics of fatherhood, commiserate and encourage each other through our shared frailty and fallibility, and most importantly, revel in the joyous absurdity…
Sons- I’m not going to pretend to understand women- or that there’s anything universal about women that’s capable of being understood, analyzed and evaluated. All I know for sure, is that girls can be incredibly mean sometimes- and yesterday you got to experience that for yourselves. One of the things we’ve always wanted for the…
Sons, Your mother and I struggle to keep updated photos of our family on the walls. Personally, I have a hard time understanding the custom of decorating your dwelling with pictures of the people who stay there. It’d probably be good for someone suffering from Alzheimer’s, but me- I know what you all look like,…
Dear Eleanor and Wesley, I will only claim two things about Friendship: I don’t understand it and every time I thought I did, it changed. I’ve had a lot of folks whom I have called friends over the years. Some of them were certainly close friends. I’ve even been lucky enough to have a few…
The Dads of The Dad Letters live in 4 different cities across 3 different states. Some of us know each other quite well, while others know each other from participation in this project. In an attempt to keep ourselves sane, we check in with each other from time to time. Here’s a transcript of one…
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