Rearview Roadkill: Fatherhood

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  Happy (Single) Father’s Day: an open letter to newly divorced dads

  Dear Dad’s, Happy Father’s Day. That may not have the same ring it once did. In fact, it may be the most God-awful expression currently used in the English language. That’s because this Father’s Day isn’t like others; this time things are different, very different. Parenting is a thankless job; it takes our kids having [...]

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  Keeping dry the torches of evil passions: children and sexual purity

  I lost my virginity at nineteen. By modern standards that’s disturbingly puritanical.  It’s even more alarming when one considers that my sexual education was a fifteen-minute film during the 7th grade featuring animated penises and a cartoon vagina. This speedy entrance is nothing I’m overly ashamed of though I don’t shout it from the church [...]

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  Unearthing the heart of a child

  We may wrestle with the effects for a lifetime while never understanding the cause. It can take us down dark paths to dead end places leaving us broken and hopeless. It remains one of the great mysteries of the human condition indifferent to race, age, or means. I have personally spent countless hours in therapy [...]

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  I’m glad to be a single dad

  Being a single parent has roughly the appeal of syphilis. A lifetime of bitterness, anger, and guilt isn’t a top contender when the genie asks for three wishes; and little boys and girls don’t dream of futures with child support, separation agreements, and visitation rights. At a fundamental level, we understand that children do better [...]

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  Abortion and the failure of men

  He was freaking. His future had vanished in a puff of disposable diapers and sleepless nights. Their relationship, ornamental by nature, was at it’s best quid pro quo. It was the view of each other’s material advantages that kept the romance going. The sex was good but not ‘death do us part’ good. There was [...]

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  Kings of Make Believe – a different take on boys and video games

  The needle slipped painlessly into the vein. The chemical release was swift. The effects were instant. A world opened like I’d never known. I now controlled my destiny. Like God, I held life in my hands. The drug sank its fangs deep and gorged on my remaining will. Friends and family became invisible; I only [...]

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  Steubenville and the hard road of parenting

  The story is a passage in our cultural diary yet one that seems faded from our collective memory. A boy of seven or so harmlessly steals two pieces of candy from a local soda shop. Walking out the father notices his son’s illicit spoils and taking advantage of the parenting moment walks the child back [...]

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