It’s about to get real. Dad 2.0 Week starts tomorrow, and that means several hundreds of you will be heading to San Antonio to celebrate all things fatherhood at the Dad 2.0 Summit. Yes! Next … Read More
FoF: Working Without A Net
This week’s column is inspired by Dad 2.019 Speaker Shannon Carpenter, whose Porchlight Post “Flexing Through Fatherhood” (see below) confronts that queasy feeling when your family looks to you for the answers you don’t have. … Read More
FoF: It’s Still All About the Writing
It started on a stage in Houston in 2013 when five invited writers read for an audience of appreciative peers. The Dad 2.0 Spotlight Readers were a highlight of our third event, and they’ve become … Read More
FoF: All Inked Up, and Everywhere To Go
He walked into the tattoo studio armed with years of planning and a forearm’s length of fresh real estate. The idea of a quill pen tattoo had persisted in Whit Honea‘s head for at least … Read More
FoF: Paid Leave Gains A Powerful Ally
Did read the news this week? Lots of talk about what masculinity is, and indignant rebuttals asserting what masculinity isn’t. We’re not surprised that companies dedicated to a man’s skin should want to get beneath … Read More
FoF: Close Called It
At last weekend’s Golden Globes ceremony, amid all of the shiny people exchanging shiny things, a speech by Glenn Close received a roaring ovation. As Close accepted her Best Actress award for The Wife, which is about … Read More
FoF: The Internet Is A Garden, and We Are Its “Gardners”
Welcome to the new year. Now is the time of resolution and resolve, the making better of that which needs bettering. There’s a helluva lot of betterment to strive for, but as our community is … Read More
2018 In Review: Fortitude, Fingernails, and Festive Leisure Wear
Here we are, on the calendar’s edge, with a new year just a page away. Trying to sum up any year is a tall task–especially a year like this, which feels like it began around … Read More
FoF: Matt Damon and “The Bourne Paternity”
When Matt Damon stood on the stage of Saturday Night Live without a movie to promote, he was just a guy standing in front of a nation, telling a particularly affecting story of shared laughter … Read More
FoF: The Person-to-Person Business
At a time when many of us are about to gather with people we (hopefully) love, we’re starting to pay more attention to those who don’t get nearly enough. Adult loneliness has become such an … Read More