By Serge Bielanko Henry looks up at my face in the middle of his push-up to see if I’m watching him. I am. I can’t not watch him. It’s pretty much impossible. It’s around 7 in the evening and we’re both down on the rug exercising. I’ve been doing this pretty steady for the past year; no […]
By Hamid Newberry Is it wrong to say that being a stay-at-home parent is for the mother. There, I said it. I would also like to state that it is incredibly difficult being a stay-at-home dad, even in the more open-minded times that we live in. I don’t live in a hipster city any longer; […]
By Hamid Newberry The boys woke at their mom’s house Easter morning, and after diving into their Easter baskets full of toys and candy, I picked them up at noon. This was my first holiday experience since my wife and I separated, so I got to feel the strangeness that comes with two separate celebrations […]
TNF: How did you start your family? DYLAN: I was married to my ex-wife for six years. We had gotten married right after I graduated from boot camp in 2008. A year later my daughter Hayden was born. I separated from my ex-wife during my first deployment to Afghanistan, and then when I got back to the […]
By Alexandra Temblador The commercials on Super Bowl Sunday of 2015 showed us what’s hot and interesting in the world right now: dads. With so many Super Bowl ads designed around fathers the message is clear: dads are taking on a new role in society. There are 70.1 million dads, according to the 2008 census, […]
TNF: Tell me about your family. JERROD: My family consists of my daughter Shayla, 19 and myself. I am also very close with my two sisters, my Mother and my 2 nieces. We consider ourselves pretty fortunate in the friend department too having close friends who have been like family to us through the years. I am currently […]
By: Jim Krueger So where was I? Oh yes, bullets. How many are necessary for a really good death? You know, the kind of epic death that you walk away from a completely changed man. The kind of death the old you doesn’t walk away from. And by old you, I’m talking about the you […]
By: Jim Krueger There was a knock at the door. I think I had been –we had been — in that new apartment for about a month. My wife was not at home. I think she was working, although to suggest there were ever a time that she was working, now seems like something almost […]
By: Craig Zagurski I have two weeks to myself. Every two weeks. And I love them. I wake up as late as I want on the weekends after staying up as late as I wanted the night before. I can sit by myself at the Mac for as long as I’d like. I can work […]
By: Craig Zagurski I am such a big lover of outstanding movies and even collect a decent number of them so that, I guess, I can revisit certain feelings of hyper- or relatable-reality and help keep my imagination a potent resource for fun and adventure. It follows that I cannot WAIT for my own offspring […]
