Each year, our guest Whit Honea serves in one of the most important roles at Dad 2.0 Summit: Presiding over the Newbie Seminar to help first-time attendees meet each other and find their way around. … Read More
Feel the Focus
One does not simply return home from attending a conference like the Dad 2.0 Summit. We plug back into our lives with renewed energy, a sharper focus on our personal and professional goals. You see … Read More
FoF: All Inked Up, and Everywhere To Go
He walked into the tattoo studio armed with years of planning and a forearm’s length of fresh real estate. The idea of a quill pen tattoo had persisted in Whit Honea‘s head for at least … Read More
FoF: The Internet Is A Garden, and We Are Its “Gardners”
Welcome to the new year. Now is the time of resolution and resolve, the making better of that which needs bettering. There’s a helluva lot of betterment to strive for, but as our community is … Read More
Fatherhood Is A Gift
We’re back! After a week off for #BlackFriday and #SmallBusinessSaturday and #CyberMonday and myriad other hashtags designed to foment mass consumerism, we’ve been spending this week concentrating on a spree of benefaction that began with … Read More
FoF: When Fatherhood Keeps The Fires At Bay
A lot of parenting relies on establishing a routine to help stave off the chaos. Routines range from the fluidly flexible to the set in stone, and they give parenting its pace, the beat we … Read More
FoF: Closer To The Bad Things
If there’s anything positive to glean from the splenetic donnybrook of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, it’s that 1) women are finding the courage to tell how they have been annoyed, unnerved, and/or terrified by men, … Read More
FoF: Parr Excellence
Sunday is Father’s Day, once an occasion sewn from the collective threads of forgotten BBQ aprons adorned with such clever wordplay as “Get out of Dad’s grill” and “Beer Me,” but now expanded to such … Read More
FoF: In LeBron We Trust
There’s something oddly comforting about this year’s NBA playoffs. Over the eight months since the season began, we’ve seen the usual drama, real and manufactured. Season-ending injuries, teams gutted and rebuilt for now (or tanking for … Read More
FoF: May the Fourth Celebrates Mom 2.0 the Tenth
This week’s column, which serendipitously falls on Star Wars Day (more on that below), comes to you live from the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, California, home of the tenth Mom 2.0 Summit. Ten years is … Read More