Who Holds the Pitchfork in This Family?

  We both wear pants, so we had to figure out who was going to be in charge . . . This picture was taken Easter weekend, 2000, in Rockford, Ill.  Linda and I were dating at the time and we went to Rockford so that Linda could see the family, especially Aunt Kathy.  She…

Spencer’s New PVC Target

Last year we bought Spencer a BB Gun (Red Ryder to be exact).  We had been using a board with three two liters screwed to it so that they couldn’t fall over.  This worked, theoretically, but Spencer didn’t necessarily know if or where he hit one of the bottles or which bottle he had hit. …

Dad’s Watching Cartoons

Let’s establish something up front . . . I am often offended by how fathers are established as illogical, spineless dupes.   It’s as if for feminist to accomplish their task they thought they had to make men look stupid so that they could look competent.  I would imagine that it would have been more effective…