Allow Me A Moment

Please Don't Punish My Bragging By Unsubscribing, Haha!

Life has been an unending, though positive, whirlwind the past week. The NYS fire tower project has begun, so I spent the last four days in eastern New York meeting with state parks folks and hiking to fire towers.

Four down! 36 to go!

Anyway, I’m behind in every single part of my life. And that includes Day By Day.

So, all I have for you today is a follow up to a question that many of you have asked over the past couple weeks. Did you win? Yes I did!

For the second year in a row, a collection of my peers (though honestly, many of them have far more experience than I) voted my column, Transcendental Dad, the best in the state. Last Thursday, right before leaving for New York, I attended the NH Press Association’s annual gala and award ceremony to collect my plaque and sit and enjoy an evening with the amazing crew over at Manchester Ink Link.

Many thanks to Carol Robidoux who basically gives me the freedom to write a parenting column in the peculiar way that I do - which is to say a column about being a dad that asks questions with no expectation of any answers.

And I’d add, many thanks to the other media outlets that also publish this column, like Go Monadnock and Parent Express. It’s thrilling - and somewhat surprising - that the column appears to resonate with so many.

Keep asking those questions parents, and I promise I’ll continue failing to answer them!

I’d add one quick thing before I go - I actually wrote a book about all of this call You and Me: Reflections on Being Your Dad. The book came out in the middle of the pandemic and no one except my wife read it. (And I gave her a copy for free!) Should that be something of interest to you, here’s a link: You & Me.

So, that’s it for now. I appreciate you humoring my bragging and continuing to share and support this little newsletter experiment. We’ll go back to our regularly scheduled programming next week or sooner if I can dig up some time.

Until then, I’ll heed the words of the great science fiction writer Jim Kelly, who once told me in regard to awards: “Enjoy the day, find a place in your office to hang it, and then get back to work!”

And so I will. On we go!