A few favorites - perspectives to admire
Mar 24th, 2008 | By Chuck | Category: Public Service| Since I began sharing my own perspective on fathering, I have found many perspectives that I admire. I wanted to take a moment and highlight a few of them for you in the event they have been left undiscovered (though I hardly believe that is the case). |
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Being Michael’s Daddy
What Tom shares in this space is truly worth your time. The care he puts into his posts and the images and thoughts they inspire are wonderful and real. A true gift. an excerpt from “About Michael”
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Building Camelot
When you read Building Camelot you get a look at a man that is really trying to get it right. You also get the feeling that Tyler has taken it upon himself to help each of us get it right in the process. No small task. an excerpt from “About Building Camelot”
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Xbox4NappyRash
Rounding out this short list is a site authored by one that is not yet a father but strongly desires to be so. While the posts here are genuine and startlingly funny they are also extremely heartfelt in their pursuit and intent. If this blog were a book I’d buy it today. an excerpt from “What in buggery is this?”
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Michael was utterly unexpected, a very powerful surprise thrust into a brand-new family of a second-time married couple and three mostly-grown daughters. We believed we were done. But God has His plans, and …
Growing up, I was fascinated with castles, knights, kings and magicians. What little boy wasn’t? Little did I know that some years later, I’d be given the opportunity to build my own little Camelot …
… In a self imposed rite of passage I have decided to take the ultimate plunge with my wife and apply my universal ineptitude to conceiving, preparing for, and caring for another human being. A ‘Child’, if you will.A few similar posts:
March 25th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Ah, yes…I lurk two of those blogs regularly, and have just visited the third for the first time. Thanks for the recommendations! Hope you’re having a good week, Chuck! Someday…someday…it shall be Spring!
Karen C.’s last blog post..Hibernation
March 25th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Thanks Karen. I’m glad one of them was new to you.
You know, I was really waiting for the first week of Spring to be, well, spring-like just so I could write you and proclaim victory.
Maybe next year.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Wow, thanks for the publicity, Chuck! Imagine my surprise to find this here this morning. I appreciate it immensely. Hope I can live up to expectations… as long as Michael keeps giving me material, I’ll keep posting.
tom’s last blog post..Needles and Fingers
March 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
My pleasure Tom. You keep posting and I’ll keep reading!
March 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Chuck & Co.
I’ve just recently come across ‘Building Camelot’ via Discovering Dad, but your first recommendation is new to me, I will be having a good read.
I’ve mentioned before how I see ‘D is for Dad’ as the ‘intellectual’ choice for readers of ‘Dad blogs’.
So often I find myself rewriting my comments here as I feel that my outward silliness can often lower the tone.
To read such kind words from people I have such respect for is pretty amazing.
Regarding the blog itself, it IS intended to be funny, although I appreciate that the humour and perhaps some of the more colourful language and manner in which I address the events may not be to everyone’s taste.
I never expected to be writing about the topics I find myself writing about at this moment.
I fully expected, in my naivity, to be writing about sleepless nights and penning cute anecdotes about a fresh fatherhood.
Instead I find that we are struggling to conceive and the challenges we face are very much different to those I had anticipated.
I don’t know how we got here, and I don’t know where we will end up.
I DO know that the desire and the drive behind our endeavours are more real, genuine, and heartfelt than any of my words, sarcastic or otherwise, can ever articulate.
The fact that you say you can recognise even a fraction of that sincerity means a hundred times more than a million readers praising the humour.
I can’t say much more of worth than ‘thank you’, and I REALLY wish my last post didn’t include naughty pictures created with vitamin supplements….
Xbox4NappyRash’s last blog post..Supplementing Spencer
March 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Chuck:
Thank you so much for mentioning Building Camelot. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be mentioned among other great blogs ON such a great blog.
Sometimes I feel like there are already many dad blogs out there and mine just gets lost in the shuffle. Then I come here and I’m humbled that you like my site and it makes me want to blog even more.
When are we going to sit down and swap some stories?
Tyler @ Building Camelot’s last blog post..20 Great Maternity Clothes Sites For Your Pregnant Wife
March 25th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Xbox, You sir are one of the good guys. Your kind words are too much, but thank you. Hopefully we can live up to expectations. All the best to you and ET!
March 25th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Tyler - It is entirely our pleasure. The little traffic we can pass your way is more than deserved and those visitors will be richer for it. Soon. We will have to swap stories soon. I’ll reach out to you.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
A most excellent round-up!
Momo Fali’s last blog post..I Like The Way He Thinks
March 27th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
*stands and applauds*
“Here, here!”
I couldn’t agree more.
soapbox mom’s last blog post..A Great Family Vacation - in San Francisco (!)