Alrighty! It’s Bruce Almighty!

Chinese take out, nuzzles from the Cuddle Monster, and Jim Frickin’ Brickman! Susan hosts an unbelievably good get-together. Us Davisons jetted up I-5 to Susan’s condo in Vancouver to join the assembled throng of Joe, Carol, Robyn, Jared, and obviously...

“Welcome to Tokyo”

Dad waited 34 years for payback. Jonah joyfully obliges. Happy Father’s Day, Dad. After a lovely meal at the Guadalajara Grill, the Davison clan return to Ma and Pa’s for conversation (Mom, Dad, Bret, Erin) and naps (Jonah and me). Jonah got another eight...

Two priests and a breastpump

A good headline in search of a story and not really finding it. Sorry. Fathers Al Larkin and Bill O’Connell, Roman Catholic priests, stopped this evening for a visit. They’re heading north to Washington at a slow but steady pace and Salem happened to be...

The Matrix is finally reloaded

We’re able to drop Jonah off with Grandma and Grandpa Davison and head for the cineplex. We would’ve liked to have seen it on May 15, opening day, but parenthood intruded. That’s OK. I’ll take Jonah over a movie any day of the week, even one as...

On fatherhood, part 2

Ignorance is bliss but so is confidence in the face of the unknown. A summary of my philosophy. I probably wigged more about our nursery remodel than Jonah’s birth. The latter just never seemed like something about which to worry, in part because much of it was...