Overweight Kids, Bad Manners and Costco

Growing up as a real skinny kid, I am very sensitive to the plight of young people unhappy with their physical appearance.  Trust me, it is NO fun to be 16 years old and nervous about taking your shirt off at the beach for fear of being ridiculed later in class.  Kids are brutal.  Add ...

What Happened to Christmas?

Christmas used to be so fun.  Right after Thanksgiving the stores put up all their lights and trees.  Then the TV shows started.  Classics like “Merry Xmas Charlie Brown,” “Frosty the Snowman,”  and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”   And it wasn’t all cartoons.  No sir.  We would watch “A Christmas Carol” (the old black ...

Why taking off your shoes can be nasty

After a very long day, I was relieved to finally get to my hotel room.  Exhausted, I went straight to the bathroom, washed my hands and face, took off my shoes, changed into shorts and proceeded to eat a very large, juicy hamburger.  With bacon.  And cheese.  Melted.  I don’t eat this way very often, ...

Welcome to MY blog.

This is a first for me…so please be patient.. Who am I?  I am, first off a dad of three girls (thus the site name).  So I will be posting about that.  But that is not why I am doing this.. I am more than just a dad.  I am proud of it, but that ...