Category: Parenting
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The Year of Disney: ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
We’ll take our family’s Year of Disney to a new level Sunday when we report to the Boardwalk Inn for the start of a three-day media event connected with the ongoing Disney Sports Festival at Walt Disney World. Specifically, the event is designed to shed light on activities, amenities and…
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Let’s Talk About God
“Every mythology, every religion, is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.” – Joseph Campbell, the Power of Myth Our first summer in Florida, I was 13 years old and wheelchair-bound after corrective surgery on both feet. My parents sent my brother…
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I’m a Dad, a Husband, a Writer … and I Want It All
I want it all. I want to be there – actually, physically, there – for my sons. I want to be a life partner and best friend for my wife, and I want her to be those things for me, too. I want a career that pays me what my…
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Are Angels Real?
“Dad, are angels real?” Not what I expected to hear tonight as I tossed supper onto the stove. I waited a beat, turned toward the kitchen table. “Why do you ask?” “Because I don’t know.” Fair enough. But I wasn’t quite ready to give him my answer. So … “Well,…
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‘Why do we go to Disney World, like, every weekend?’
Are you kidding me? A seven-year-old boy actually asked this question a couple of days ago while his dad was tucking him into bed for the night. “Daddy, why do we go to Disney World, like, every weekend almost?” The dad blinked and said, “Buh … wha … because it’s…
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Seconds to Check, a Lifetime of Moments to Savor
I’m trying to remember how I thought about things when I was seven. I carry a few foggy memories from that age of an awakening awareness of gonads, girls and God. I was on the verge of knowing a few things, but I was still working out the details. For…
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The Year of Disney Begins
Two days, three parks, four exhausted family members. The trouble with fun of this magnitude is that when you come home, there’s grocery shopping and housework waiting. But if the choice is between that and doing the grocery shopping and housework without going to Walt Disney World for a 35-hour…
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Why I Don’t Cover Baseball Any More
Pitchers and catchers report next week for spring training. On that day, I’ll pick up my sons at daycare, take them home, make their supper, beg them to eat their green beans, help them with their homework, maybe play with them for a while, help them get ready for bed,…
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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…
Carter Gaddis, Writer & Editor 
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