I met Lee just a couple weeks before my nineteenth birthday. At the time I was smack dab in the middle of some conflict with my stepmom. A conflict that had been going on for almost a year…ever since I dropped out of college. At that point I was on the verge of moving to [...]

About ten years ago my dad and [now ex] stepmom moved out of state. Before they left they brought over a couple of boxes of my crap that had been stored in their basement. It’s now stored in my basement. I’m making a lot of progress.
A couple years ago I went digging through that box [...]

I was appalled by this post over at Dad Centric. How can it be “against policy” to clean up a child after a diarrhea accident? How can a daycare center possibly think it’s acceptable to let a child sit in his own feces for over 45 minutes? Daycare has the word “care” in it. I [...]

Justis turned fifteen today. FIFTEEN! These birthdays just keep sneaking up on me. Fifteen? I can hardly believe it.
I thought we’d celebrate by viewing some old photos of Justis. I’m going to try to make sure I don’t use the same photos I used last year.
Here’s Justis as a baby. He was just one month [...]