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Home Blog Words on Wednesday

A blogger, a father, and now an eponym

dad2summitFebruary 25, 2015Announcements, Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

After our Saturday keynote, we were honored to name our Scholarship Fund after our friend, Oren Miller, who is fighting Stage IV lung cancer. For years, Oren has been instrumental in building a worldwide community … Read More

My two life metrics

dad2summitFebruary 18, 2015Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

I think about death often. Not in an obsessive way. More of a practical thought process. It’s not a topic I share with friends or family, so I’ve gotten quite adept at having that conversation … Read More

The sequences, loops, and logic of Life

dad2summitFebruary 11, 2015Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

Long before I was a parent, I was a computer programmer. In elementary school, one of the first programs I wrote was a simple animation loop of a stick figure doing jumping jacks. I didn’t … Read More

I want my kids to be too cool to be cool

dad2summitFebruary 4, 2015Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

“I wish that I could be like the cool kids, ’cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in.” – Echosmith These are lyrics in a song by a band that I’m probably too old … Read More

They don’t know

dad2summitJanuary 28, 2015Announcements, Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

I knew the type of neighborhood it would be when I read the address on my daughter’s birthday invitation. Even after a week of preparation, when I pulled up to drop her off at the … Read More

Object permanence

dad2summitJanuary 21, 2015Announcements, Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

The “Mongoloid” card gets played despite ground rules and—across the table—Jenn and I meet glances. Finn is asleep in Jenn’s lap, thumb resolutely in mouth. In slumber, Finn’s almond eyes close along sinuous lines; the … Read More

Crepe paper, pink thumbs

dad2summitJanuary 14, 2015Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

You know crepe paper, right? In recent years, it has been replaced with a sort of plastic substitute that is stronger, more colorful, and, importantly, color-fast. It is vastly improved over the crap I used … Read More

Podcasting gives my family history a human voice

dad2summitJanuary 8, 2015Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

Once I found out about podcasting, I took to it pretty fast. My family has always been full of storytellers, and I obviously got the gene from my dad. More often than not, at any … Read More

The long goodbye

dad2summitDecember 17, 2014Announcements, Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

Several years ago, I was having a drink with an acquaintance, a man around my age.  Given my work in the parenting space, topics of family and fatherhood never seem too far off. And here … Read More

Kid, if you’re gonna do it, do it f@#king right

dad2summitDecember 10, 2014Uncategorized, Words on Wednesday

As each day passes in my journey as a parent, and as my daughter continues her maturation, I know there are inevitabilities for which I must prepare. She will feel a parental decision is unjust. … Read More

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