Tammy and I had just returned from San Antonio, TX when that conversation with her co-worker took place. I was there in Texas attending a user group conference for the software product that I support. Tammy had tagged along the same as she had done many times in the past for these user group conferences. …
With China now out of the picture, when then switched our focus to a Russian adoption, but only briefly. Please understand that I do not wish to discourage anyone from pursuing an international adoption; I simply want to make people aware of the challenges involved with an international adoption and some of the pitfalls we …
Neither of us came from large families. I have two sisters while Tammy has a brother and a sister. My mother’s family was very large with several sisters and a couple brothers. This meant I have quite a few cousins – many of whom I do not know even today. With the passing of my …
When I was younger, I had never really given much thought to being a dad. I saw how much my parents struggled to make ends meet to provide for us and when I looked at how horrible the world was, having a child of my own was not on my radar. However, I had been …
By now, these hospital trips had become fairly routine. Dad would go in because of some pains in his chest and we would all grab our ‘go bags’ and meet at the hospital. Over the years we watched the CAMC hospital in Kanawha City expand and grow into one of the largest in the area. …
Over the next several years, my family would become quasi-experts in medical terminology relating to the human heart. We learned that heart catheterization required a long tube called a catheter which was inserted into a vein in the groin to introduce a dye into the heart. X-rays would then be taken to check for any …
Perhaps the title of my blog/book is incorrect. Perhaps it should have been named Fifteen Minute Dad. Any male, who does not suffer from infertility like myself, can father a child. There has only been one Man who can lay claim to having had no earthly father so every one of us had a father …