One year, three books!

It’s been a good first year! We made a lot of good connections with people, and were able to meet our goal of getting three books released on Amazon—and we’re aiming for another three books next year! The image above links to my author page on Amazon,...

Here’s another great resource for dads!

Hey, everyone. Here’s a shout-out to my friend John Finch, who has just launched a website: ENCOURAGINGDADS.com (link), with the goal of “Sharing Positive Stories to Encourage Great Dads.” If you see a common theme here, it’s because there is...

Happy to announce the release of the third book!

We released the third book in The Dad Story Project series on Christmas eve. Can you be with me? uses 15 short essays to explore the simple idea of time as the currency of childhood. You can download it for $0.99 on Amazon by clicking this. And there will be a free...
The blessings of things hoped for

The blessings of things hoped for

Our Jen, with first daughter Sophie. This story was first published in The Bridgton News, April, 2010, and later published in the second book in The Dad Story Project series: THE TUG OF THE STRING: Stories about staying connected I began praying for my future...
Storing up treasures

Storing up treasures

We live in the age of stuff, the man thought. He was staring at his barn from the dining room window. It was so chock full that he recently had to build storage racks in his garage, to hold yet more stuff. As Christmas approached, the frantic obsession with stuff...
The dock came out to meet us

The dock came out to meet us

I wrote this in September 2011, and I wanted to convey in the simplest way that things change…while not really changing at all. Our family has had camps on a remote Adirondack lake for about 100 years, and they are only accessible by boat. The lake never...