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Meet a Dad: Rob Tucker
By
Jason Boyett
The goal of Meet a Dad: Profile a dad and let him share his fatherly wisdom with us. Some of these dads will be well-known in certain circles; others will be largely unknown outside of their immediate circles. Doesn’t matter, because I think just about every father has as much (or more) to share than…
Bats ARE Real!
By
Jason Boyett
I went backpacking last weekend with some friends. At dusk, a smattering of bats came out, fluttering above the firelight. I told my kids about it in the car yesterday, while driving home from dinner. Son: “Really? There were bats?” Me: “Yep.” Son, to my daughter: “See?!? Bats are real!” Daughter: “I know. Who said…
As a Child, I Wanted to Live in a Space Colony
By
Jason Boyett
Feeling nostalgic today, thanks to this post from The Atlantic’s Alex Madrigal about the big movement in the ’70s to build space colonies. I had a set of Disney-produced books about science and history, and one of them had an essay about space colonies, moon colonies, and undersea colonies — complete with artists’ renderings of…
Kids and Snakes and Teachable Moments
By
Jason Boyett
Nathan Reimer has been a long-time reader of my various blogs and has a great fatherhood/parenting blog of his own called Dads Can Cook Too! In a story he shared last weekend, he offered a great example of how to take advantage of a teachable moment with his son: I’m at work and receive an…
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