I was never in the Boy Scouts. I was, still am, and most likely forever will be, a city slicker. But I always admired the Scouts. I have always wanted to be a Goonie. And I’ve always, always wanted a Junior Woodchuck Guidebook. Wait, you don’t remember the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook? Let me refresh your Read More
Month: July 2017
The Art of Manliness
There is a meme out in the memosphere that men these days do not know how to be “real men”. Every generation has their own definition of what it means to be a man, and I like to think that some of the progress we’ve made since the days of Mad Men are a good Read More
Fatherly.com
We fathers sometimes get a bum rap. We’re often the butt of sitcom jokes where we’re portrayed as benignly incompetent parents who are lucky not to burn the house down when the mothers leave the house for a few hours, who’s idea of feeding the kids is pizza and Doritos (not that there’s anything Read More
Isla Bikes
When I was growing up, I learned to ride a bike using training wheels. A couple of things that stick in my mind. First, the bike was HEAVY. It was a pain in the butt to walk that thing anywhere and having the training wheel made the bike doubly cumbersome to manipulate. Second, I remember Read More