by ryanc | Dec 25, 2017 | Childhood, Dear Old Dad, Fatherhood, Games
Last night, we heard the clippity-clopping of Morse code on the rooftops, which could only mean one thing: Puzzle Claus was making his rounds again, delivering presents to the world’s cleverest boys and girls. Feedback from last year’s inaugural visit from...
by ryanc | Dec 31, 2016 | Childhood, Dear Old Dad, Fatherhood, Games, Memories
i created a little puzzle hunt for my two girls (ages 8 and 10) to complete on Christmas morning, before opening their big gangbusters mom-and-dad-spent-too-much-money presents. i spent a few evenings stealing artwork from the internet and putting together five...
by ryanc | Dec 2, 2004 | Childhood, Fatherhood, Toys, Twistedhip
When they coined the term “deadbeat dad,” they were talking about my father. The information i have about him is pieced together from whatever scant information my mother would mete out, and the very few visits i had with him. A world traveller, my father...
