Year One – Top Personal Stories

The Real Dad Rules

On Monday, May 16, 2011 by Dan Pearce · Categories: Parenting, Popular Posts, Read Along: Real Dad Rules, Read, Think, Debate

“Fatherhood doesn’t sell.” They were the words I had become uncomfortably used to hearing. I didn’t care. I couldn’t let myself care.

I hope you don’t mind if I get a little personal today. I don’t really know how to present this book without becoming so. It’s all a very personal thing for me as a dad; as a parent.

When the girls split last June, I wanted to run. I wanted to leave. It [...]

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Butterfly Kisses

On Friday, May 13, 2011 by Dan Pearce · Categories: Humor, Parenting, Popular Posts, That's Life

The other day, Noah and I met my family for a night of fun at the bowling alley. As much as I hate bowling (remember why?) myself, I do love helping Noah roll his ball down the lane.

After we finished our game, the bigger chunk of my family still had a few frames go, so I kicked back and got as comfortable as a guy as big as me can get in the [...]

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The French Guy

On Tuesday, May 3, 2011 by Dan Pearce · Categories: That's Life

A couple years ago my (then) wife and I were visiting my brother and his family in England. One day we decided to make the drive down to the north shores of France and come back the same day. It was on the drive down that I learned one of the greatest, yet simplest lessons I’ve ever learned in life.

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In honor of Carissa

On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 by Dan Pearce · Categories: Read, Think, Debate, That's Life

Today is the three-year anniversary of my little sister’s death. Her name was Carissa, and she was the most beautiful woman I’ve known. In honor of my sister, I think it’s appropriate to repost the Saturday’s Heroes post I wrote about her.

Carissa is and always will be my greatest inspiration and number one hero. I had the privilege of giving the eulogy [...]

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S.A.H.D.

On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Dan Pearce · Categories: Parenting, Popular Posts, That's Life

I wake up this morning at 7:40 AM, just as I have been almost every weekday the last month and a half. It’s straight-up torture waking up that early.

Sleep… sweet sleep… make yourself known to me.

I spend the next fifteen minutes pressing the snooze button, after which I grouchily roll out of bed, sludge to the bathroom, douse my eyes with freezing cold [...]

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My Mad Wrinkle

On Friday, February 25, 2011 by Dan Pearce · Categories: Humor

The other morning I was jolted awake, my beauty rest carelessly interrupted as 33 lbs. of four-year-old came barreling down on top of me, knee-first into my sternum. “It’s daytime!” Noah screeched. It was far too early and Noah was far too chipper.

As I lay rubbing my chest, I tried to explain to Noah that he couldn’t jump on Daddy like that. “It hurts, and it makes it hard to breathe,” I told him.

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The Real Dad Rules

Butterfly Kisses

The French Guy

In honor of Carissa

S.A.H.D.

My Mad Wrinkle

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