It's been nearly a week now since Father's Day was celebrated here and in many places around the world (except Down Under where it takes place on 7 September, and a few others on 19 March). Once again, we found ourselves in the limelight last week. By 'we', I'm not talking about fathers everywhere, though … Continue reading Father’s Day Isn’t One Day. It’s A Lifetime.
Fathers Take The Hit! Yep that's what these recent years have beenAnd I know it doesn't seem fitBut no matter how far we've come in timeFather's simply aren't a hit! They're still ignored in crucial yearsWhen they need to feel they're seenBut bit by bit they fade awayUntil they're nothing but a dream Forgotten birthdaysAnd … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #248
Acclaimed singer/songwriter and Nobel laureate Eric Clapton opened his famous song "Change The World", which he wrote for his son, with these lyrics: If I could reach the stars, pull one down for you, shine it on my heart, so you could see the truth. That this love I have inside, is everything it seems…” … Continue reading It’s Time Stay Home Dads Wax Lyrical About Fatherhood
Tomorrow is Father's Day and I wanted to take this time to acknowledge a special group of fathers I got to know since March this year. These wonderful gentlemen have given me new hope that maybe, even at this stage of my now five-year-journey as a stay home dad, it's still not too late to … Continue reading A community of non-traditional fathers
On Father’s Day 2021, my musings on the losses and gains of being a stay home dad {A version of this post first appeared here in a local news publication Todayonline. Also, check out a reader's beautifully written and resonating response to my piece here.}When it comes to parenting, one truth remains today: Fathers are, … Continue reading ‘Worth in the Hearth’ — A New Masculine Identity?
...hadn't: been trapped in his patriarchal past and so lorded it over us. equated a person's worth ONLY with money and power. given endless lectures because he knew not how else to connect with his family. waxed lyrical about his hometown incessantly, like it was heaven on earth praised his own goodness non-stop, saying he's … Continue reading This Father’s Day, I wish my father…
So what to say about this coming Sunday, my 11th anniversary of celebrating Father's Day as a dad? After all, it's an unfinished journey, so maybe I should wait a few more years to say something meaningful? Or when the kids have all grown up and flown the coop? Yet, as I turn 50 in … Continue reading Living in my 50s #2 – Please Lord, may I have 50 more Father’s Day?!
