T.V. Dads

Can we all agree that t.v. dads are terrible fathers? These guys gave me the wrong idea about fatherhood from the very beginning. I had visions, trapped in the golden age of sitcoms, wrapped in a cardigan sweater, and aged in the homey aroma of pipe tobacco, that played out with me resembling a frighteningly Frankensteined combination of Mike Brady, Mr. Rogers, Ward Cleaver, and Mr. Feeney. I…
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Picture Day

Day care sent home a letter that Picture day is next week. Now maybe it's because we have cameras on our phones these days but I started asking myself, do I really need that? Don't I have three hundred pictures of Boy Wonder in the same pose already? "Oh look! There's another one of him sleeping. I'm sorry I don't have any recent ones, this is from a month ago. He looks totally different now."…
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