Over the years, I’ve tried to find ways to monetize this blog in ways that aren’t distracting or annoying or unethical for readers. For the most part, I’ve been working on selling a few ads here and there, and relying on affiliate sales. I’ve been getting some more traffic on my Amazon Associates account recently, […]
Archives for May 2012
4-5 Month Video Update of Caleb
Just wanted to share a video update of some run Caleb moments recently. The video has some clips of jumping in the Merry Muscle Bouncer, his first eating of rice cereal and some other super cute moments. Enjoy.
Children’s Music: Renee & Jeremy
A few weeks ago, Rainn Wilson (also known as Dwight from the Office) tweeted about some children’s music by Renee & Jeremy. I wasn’t familiar with them (hell, I’m not really very familiar with a lot of children’s music), but I decided to give them a try. After listening to a few of them, I […]
Babysitters are Crazy
We’ve been blessed to have wonderful neighbors and folks from our church who have helped us out and volunteered to watch Caleb for us over the past couple months. It’s been a really huge gift. But it eventually became clear to us (well, to my wife….and I finally listened) that it would be even better […]
Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back
One of my hopes with Dazed Dad is writing about grief and loss from a father’s perspective. As anyone who has gone looking for it, you’ll know there really isn’t much available and out there. Kelly Farley is trying to help with that by publishing a book called Grieving Dads. The video above is for […]
Where is God in the Midst of Grief, Loss and Illness?
This is cross-posted from a post I wrote for Jake Bouma’s Cancer & Theology series. You can see the original version here. We were asked to reflect on the issue of cancer & theology. There is some profanity below, which I thought about taking out, but feel like it’s appropriate for the subject matter. Jake […]
Caleb’s Baptism
Last Sunday was Caleb’s baptism. Both my parents and Sarah’s parents were able to be here for the occasion, and it was really wonderful. It was his first time in church, and he did very well. Thankfully, my colleague put the baptism toward the beginning of the service, so he didn’t have to wait too […]