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Fatherhood and post-it notes
This post originally appeared on my other blog but this is its proper home. I’m a Dad. Father. Pops. Pappa. Da. Whatever my girls choose to call me actually. Mostly, for Gemma, my 7 year old, I’m just...
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The Girls vs The Man
A number of weeks back, I was taking a regular stroll with my three daughters. Walks like this have become a treasured ritual for us. We live on a beautiful high school campus which the girls have...
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Girl, you’ll be a woman soon…
I often just look at my girls. I take in their features and I’m left in awe of them; each created with a unique beauty. I have loved watching them grow out of their awkward, disproportionate baby...
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Let go and engage
It’s the way we’re wired, us men. We immerse ourselves in our labour: some are lawyers, miners and car salesmen; others are astronauts, physicists, artists or runners. This immersion is our meaning:...
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Delicately Balancing
It is probably a primal urge that urges fathers, like me, to protect our daughters at all costs. Our lives lose every measure of their worth when we consider our daughters’ safety. We make lame jokes...
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On ruts and ruining lives
Most fathers I know are not intent on ruining the lives of their daughters. Certainly, I am not. I have realised, however, that certain patterns of behaviour, left unchecked, might leave indelible...
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Grace, on repeat
People mess up on repeat. My daughters are no different. Mikaela is perpetually slow because she is an avid daydreamer and wall starer. In itself, this is not an issue but when all of us are always...
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Give my daughters back
Right now, 3 beautiful girls are lying sleeping in their beds. Dreaming of days gone by and fantasies unrealised. Often, I sit on the ends of their beds and listen to the calm cadence of their night...
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I want them to know what they’re worth
This post originally appeared on brucesbrews.com. The sentiments expressed then are still true now and so I repost them here because this feels like the right place. Sometime in 2011, on “A Deeper...
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Not the weaker sex
I have been moved recently by the real stories that are being told boldly on a local radio station: real accounts of brutal abuse and rape. The cause is the #StopRape campaign. Even writing that word...
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