I was going to post a story here to share with your kids, but I posted the only kid’s story II have had published that is scary last year…in case you missed that you can find Cat Candles Here:  CAT CANDLES
If you are in the mood to have someone tell you a story… I just [...]

Since tomorrow is Halloween, and it’s a Saturday, a lot of you will be carving your pumpkins.  Please, don’t carve a boring one.  We’re Dad-o-matic [...]

This is my daughter’s third Halloween.  Every year, she is a tiger.  She is a tiger because we live in Memphis, TN and the mascot [...]

One of the best perks of being a parent is raiding your kids’ Halloween candy when they are asleep. Of course, my daughter is only [...]

Life’s Third Rule by Dad-o-Matic author Joe Hage.

Kids’ costumes in modern times have gone from sickly sweet to just plain sick. A walk down the dripping, splattered, fake-blood-soaked Halloween aisle of your favorite drugstore proves a point last heard in 2000: Gore wins the popular vote.

When I went online to find my kids costumes, I found life-like swords and machetes, clear masks that filled up with blood, and a variety of disembodied heads and severed limbs. I saw a “zombie doctor” costume with “PVC rotting chest, pants with rotted knee, zombie mask, surgical mask, surgical cap and latex gloves” that came in size 4-6!

I’ve been traveling a lot. It’s not easy on my family, but they all know that the goal is good enough to support. Today, I had 20 minutes with my boy before jumping in the car to go to yet another event. Here’s what I did with the time:

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Times have certainly changed.  My wife and I struggle with how to give our kids the same kind of Halloween we experienced as kids.  The Halloween of our childhood has sadly passed us by.  Instead,  the mall offers trick or treating, we cart the kids around to relatives houses, and we keep some candy in [...]

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The adventures of Max and his wild, woolly friends has always been a favorite of mine. The unique visual style of Maurice Sendak’s [...]

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Hi, my name is Buck and I don’t have parent guilt.  I probably should start from the beginning.  I travel for [...]

“Words, words, words.”
- William Shakespeare (HAMLET)

I love words. I love to read and write. I was an English Major in college. Thus, [...]

Thanks to the pandemic spread of Swine Flu, we’re dealing with an especially scary flu season at home and at work. While we’re all familiar [...]

Halloween is one of the greatest holidays. Like most holidays, it has its share of commercialism, but it doesn’t come with the obligations, guilt, and [...]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, yet as my task for this latest installment in the Sony DigiDad Project I am asked [...]

Joe Hage uses Twitter to capture gems like “I don’t like getting punished and I hate it!”

Food, glorious food!  To this day that is one of my favorite songs from the musical “OLIVER.” (Ok, that may be “too much information,” but bear with me, please…)  If you watched the video of my parents in a recent post here as part of the Sony DigiDad Project you may have gleaned that food [...]