Posts Tagged ‘fathers’
Stupid super dads suck
Three of my friends built tree houses for their children. One (and maybe two) are minor death traps, but still. These men designed and built things with wood and nails. I can’t tell you how impossible that sounds to me. My daughter wants a tree house. Knowing that I have twice asked a friend to…
Read MoreFathers don’t get to teach their children to swim anymore.
When I was a boy, my father taught me how to swim. I would cling to the edge of my grandfather’s pool, my father would push me off the edge and toward the center of the pool, and I would flail my way back to the edge. He would repeat this process again and again…
Read MoreThe Moth: Two Fathers
The following is a story that I told at a Moth StorySLAM at The New School in New York City in March of this year. The theme of the night was G0ing Sane. I told a story about my attempts to win the approval of my father and then my stepfather. I finished in third…
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