A father who is raising 2 kids, 2 dogs, married 20 years, works a job to pay bills and kill time between vacations, and looking to share stories, advice, thoughts, etc with other Dads out there also trying to simply navigate “Life”.

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THE FATHER BLOG

I want to share my experiences with other working fathers and welcome the thoughts of all dads out there because I certainly don’t have all the answers myself.

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Days of the Week Post Topics

  • Monday – Finance
  • Tuesday – Beer/Liquor/Booze
  • Wednesday – Family
  • Thursday – Travel and Sports
  • Friday – Miscellaneous

  • Are Canadian wildfires overwhelming your area with smoke?

    Here is NJ….they certainly are. The air quality here is terrible and over the last several days there has been this yellow/orange haze just lingering in the air. When I look at this map all I can think is: Is the entire country of Canada on fire?!

    Here is a great website: AirNow Fire and Smoke Map

    It can geolocate your position and tell you the air quality forecast for your area. Basically in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area it’s telling us to stay indoors because the air quality is “very unhealthy”.

    So it’s Friday at least. Start the weekend early…it’s o’clock somewhere! Have a great weekend!

  • Spain beats France in World Cup

    So I can admit two things here. 1. I know absolutely nothing about soccer. 2. I was wrong.

    I figured I would just go with the favorite and said France would win. I was completely wrong but it didn’t make me lose any sleep. I have a friend who told me he was glad to see them lose because he said “I didn’t know France was a country in Africa”. I saw that 23 of the 26 players were born in France so I was wondering what the issue was until he sent me the roster. Then I understood.

    So being a baseball guy, I said which is worst? Having the French World Cup team be comprised of mostly all French born players who are obviously not French heritage or the Italian World Baseball Classic roster which comprised an entire roster of men with Italian heritage but only 4 of them actually born in Italy?

    Any thoughts? Please share

  • Tortola 2026

    We are back from our trip from Tortola BVI. If you want to know about the nightlife and partying in Road Town by the cruise ships docks…..I couldn’t tell you a thing about any of that.

    What I can tell you is that the people of Tortola are wonderful. The island is beautiful. The beaches and water are fantastic. It is such a relaxing island and that is what we went for on this trip. It is definitely not peak season so it probably worked in our favor for being less crowded as well as the fact we stayed on the quieter West End of Tortola down overlooking Soper’s Hole Wharf and Marina off Frenchman’s Cay.

    I would give one big piece of advice: make sure you have a 4WD or AWD vehicle and learn how to put it in 1st gear (possibly got stuck and almost slide down a mountain backwards on a tight switchback). Otherwise, Painkillers are delicious and the Carib was ice cold! Sage Mountain National Park is more of a nice walk through a rainforest more than a hike but it was still fun. Cane Garden Bay has way more activity than the other beaches on island (and we actually all preferred the seclusion of Smuggler’s Cove over it).

    I’ll touch on more as I get acclimated to being back home but wanted to give a quick update. Now back to reality….