Defusing an F-Bomb

A father admires his daughter’s response

Dada Day

Celebrating the Art of Childish Nonsense

Master of His Craft

The Builder

Mark Byttow is an artist and a master of his craft. I call him a builder.

Bearnaise

A gift from Dad

I can make bearnaise sauce. Not the easy, bearnaise-in-a-blender crap you read about in…

Remembering Dad. 

He would be astonished by my world

For my daughter on graduation day

When my daughter was 12 years old, she asked me a question that surprised and impressed me:

Three Unforgettable Lessons My Dad Taught Me 

 Of Faith, People and Beauty in Sport 

On The Greatest Man I Know

And lessons you might learn from him, too.

My first memory of him is from when I was two years old, living in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He was just coming home from a deployment to Australia, and was happy to see his wife and…

Dad, I miss you

Five years on, gone but never forgotten

For my father and his father

On Chess