Category: SeattleDad

The Good Books

A comfortable place to read In a recent post over at my blog ‘Luke, I am Your Father’, I related how I was a bit astonished but also a bit proud of the number of kid books my wife, Mrs. LIAYF, and I have accumulated in the three years we have been parents. That number was at nearly 500. I would venture to guess that we have read almost all of those 500 to our son at least once. Many we have read to him Read More...

Turning Off the Tube

It was just the other day that my son, who just turned three, and I were at a local library. “Look Daddy. Look what I found. It’s a duck. I’ll call it Duck Duck.” at which point he held up a medium sized stuffed Big Bird toy. Such is the life of a toddler raised without television. Anyone who reads my personal blog Luke, I am Your Father should know that we gave up tv before our son was bor Read More...

Backyard Camping

Despite the fact that the revelation of this may bring a few cat calls for me to relinquish my Pacific North-Westerner card, I hereby admit that I am not a camper.  Even though I grew up on a dairy farm in rural Southwest Washington state surrounded by high hills and abundant nearby campsites, I was always one of those guys who was too busy to get into the camping lifestyle.  Did I mention that I grew up on a da Read More...

The Season is Right for Change

  Seattledad in a teaching moment. Good morning, and welcome to the revolution. The DadRevolution. As I sit here writing this post, I am reflecting back on my Sunday morning. It was a morning spent at Seattle’s Alki beach with my wife and son. The weather was beautiful, the air was crisp, and the people we met were generally in good spirits. It is now Spring in my city after all. It is a time when we here in Read More...