Author: Carter Gaddis
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The Year of Disney
Is today February? The 4-year-old knows. He knows that the Year of Disney begins for us when the calendar turns to February. Every day since he learned that fact, he has asked the question. Is today February? Not yet, we tell him. Soon. Shortly after February arrives, we’ll make the first of many…
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Why Do We Join?
One of the first pieces of advice I received when I began to write this dad blog was to “find your tribe.” I thought the guy was being condescending. I thought I was being blown off. It sounded a little to me like, “Look, pal. You’re new. We’ve been here.…
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The Time We Almost Missed Christmas
We shuffled up to the customer service counter winded, defeated, dejected. The O’Hare concourse was empty. Anybody who had a chance to get somewhere that night, Christmas Eve 2000, was either there already or on the way. Not us. We were trapped in the giant airport on the outskirts of…
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On Chick-fil-A and a Sad Video by Bad Parents
I was going to write about Chick-fil-A. We’ve always been a Chick-fil-A family. And by family, I mean a man, a woman, and two kids. You know, the “right” kind of family. Dan Cathy’s kind of family. We’re not a Chick-fil-A family any more. Chick-fil-A owner Dan Cathy is free…
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Cape Cod Days
We’ll head back to Cape Cod for the fifth time as a family in a couple of weeks. Before we started going there (almost) every summer, I thought of Cape Cod as this exotic place. It was the Kennedys and lobster, sailing and lobster, summer theater and lobster, golf and…
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She Sees the Best in Me
Grandma is under hospice care now. Mom and Dad have been to see her in the home every day since the stroke, which left a blood clot in her brain and rendered her virtually helpless. They don’t know how lucid she actually is, because the stroke took away her ability…
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Two Lives Collide at the Ball Park on Father’s Day
My two lives collided today when we took the boys to Tropicana Field for a game between the Rays and the Marlins. It’s still weird going back to that place. Did you ever go back to your old high school for a visit in the years shortly after graduation? You…
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Parenting: Our Political Common Ground
So much divides us. Politics divides us. Religion divides us. Money divides us. Ethnicity divides us. Geography divides us. Social mores divide us. Ignorance divides us. Fear divides us. More than ever in my lifetime, it seems that we are defined by what we oppose, by our juxtaposition against –…
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The Places I Saw, the Things I Did
I was a sportswriter from 1986 until 2010. During that time, I worked primarily for the Tampa Tribune in Florida. When I was hired there in 1992, there were about 65 people on the sports staff. After the most recent round of layoffs, there are, by my count, seven sportswriters…
Carter Gaddis, Writer & Editor 
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