Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

Well, I did it. I entered my very first cooking contest.
In entering the recipe that I did I also took a big risk. Even though the rules of the contest didn’t stipulate that the recipe had to be something simple or easy to prepare, I felt no matter what it was necessary for [...]

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Fathers and the parenting equation

November 16, 2009

Every once in a while there is an article or a news story about dads and fatherhood that really rubs me the wrong way. It has been a while since one has come through my stream that has annoyed me as much as the New York Times article “Fathers Gain Respect From Experts [...]

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RMDM on Daddy Yak IV

August 17, 2009

Today I’m back at it with my contribution to the latest Dad-Blogs Daddy Yak episode.  In the fourth installment of this series we were to discuss our opinions on infants and toddlers in public.
As I did before, I tried to have a little fun with the topic.  I encourage you to check out all the other [...]

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RMDM on Daddy Yak III

July 27, 2009

Around Fathers Day Dad-Blogs introduced a new feature called Daddy Yak where us dads would take a turn in front of the camera to discuss various topics.  Despite having a face for radio I decided to give it a go on the third installment in which we were to discuss the difference between gay dads [...]

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How to Cook the Meal and Keep the Girl

July 26, 2009

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This post originally appeared as part of a guest series I’m doing over at Building Camelot on July 21, 2009.
OK, so you already have the girl, but in our fast paced lives it is easy to forget what brought the two of you together in the first place. Therefore, it [...]

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Any Major Dad Will Tell You: The Devoted Dad

July 21, 2009

In today’s final installment of the ‘Any Major Dad’ series we have Jason a/k/a The Devoted Dad.  Jason is a fellow minivan driver, the father of two and is married to wowife.  If you haven’t check out his blog, you should, but after you read a little more from him here
RMDM: How has [...]

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Any Major Dad Will Tell You: Bella Daddy

July 14, 2009

For the third of the four Dad-Blogs.com entries into my ‘Any Major Dad Will Tell You‘ series we have another stay at home dad – BellaDaddy. BellaDaddy and his partner, Papa, are the proud parents to their way too cute daughter Bella. Like me, BellaDaddy has felt that moment of hesitation when asked [...]

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Don’t Be a PASV and Other Sage Advice

July 8, 2009

Through our battles with the teething monster I finally found the time to finish reading the review copy of DadLabs Guide to Fatherhood: Pregnancy and Year One that I received from their publisher, Quirk Books. It was a good, entertaining read, but I’ll be honest I’m a little annoyed. Why, you ask? [...]

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Desert Island iPod

July 4, 2009

This post originally appeared on my music column ‘The Crossroads’ over at Dad-Blogs.com on May 5, 2009.
Growing up one of my favorite shows to listen to on the radio was “Desert Island Discs” which purported to give a run down of the albums that one would view as essential to life if they were stranded [...]

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Down to ‘The Crossroads’

July 4, 2009

I had been toying around with the idea of posting my music column articles here on RMDM the day after they are posted over at Dad-Blogs.com and finally got around to importing the articles that have already been published.  So,  like Vizzini says, we go back back to the beginning.  Over the next week or [...]

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The Scoop on ‘Continuing his training…’

June 11, 2009

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Like Obi Wan Kenobi enlightening a young Luke Skywalker, I’m on a mission to mold the mind of my wee lad with thoughts that chores are fun.  I mean, this is one of the reason we have kids right?  I’ve been taking the trash out for years, and the other night my little [...]

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