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Cancelling The Christmas Trip
It took me six months to plan it, three months to pay for it and less than a week to cancel it entirely, losing about $650 in the process. Here was the itinerary: 12/26 – Early morning pickup of Z,...
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The Call I’ve Been Dreading Just Came In
Ring, Ring Hello? It’s Z Hi Kitten. What’s up? I’m just calling to let you know I won’t be coming over this weekend. [sigh] Why not? Because I’m going shopping with Mommy and A. Christmas shopping....
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How Things Get Done, or… The Kids Finally Clean Their Room
X called me this afternoon as she needed me to babysit for a few hours. This was just the opportunity I was looking for. Z and her 8-year old brother G have not cleaned their room in months and X...
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Why Do We Lie?
Z’s been on a serious lying kick of late. I don’t know how much of it’s just a puberty thing, but it’s really driving me crazy. In fact, we spent about 6 hours yesterday afternoon/evening discussing...
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I’m SOOOO Proud Of My Little Girl!
I guess I should say ‘young woman’ at this point, but she’ll always be my little girl. I don’t want to go into too many details because I know some of her friends like to keep up with everything here...
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My Daughter The Pro Blogger
As parents, there are millions of things we want to teach our children in a relatively short period of time. As a divorced father who missed the first 9 years of his daughters life there are just as...
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Sometimes, I Just Wanna Be A Normal Dad
A few weeks ago a friend of Zaira’s accompanied us to Fright Fest at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. On the two hour drive to Vallejo her friend commented that I was “not like any other Dad [she]...
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Just When You Think You’ve Figured It Out…
::sigh:: It was bad enough when Z and her mother got in their biggest fight ever on Sunday night. At least then I still felt like she and I had pretty good lines of communication. Then Wednesday...
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Parenting And Politics Don’t Always Mix
As a father with very strong political views (that don’t wander anywhere near ‘mainstream’) I understand how difficult it can be to balance educating my child with the truths our society prefers to...
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How Can I Become A Winner When I Believe I’m A Loser?
Isn’t this really one of the biggest questions that each and every one of us has encountered at some point? And, of course, it may not seem to have anything to do with anarchy, philosophy,...
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