http://daddyscratches.com Watch as 40-year-old suburban husband, father and writer with delusions of grandeur has a meltdown before your very eyes. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:06:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F23%2Fbuggin-out%2F&seed_title=Buggin%26%238217%3B+out http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F23%2Fbuggin-out%2F&seed_title=Buggin%26%238217%3B+out#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:40:51 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6226 Let's just say I was in the right place at the right time ... where "place" is...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F23%2Fbuggin-out%2F&seed_title=Buggin%26%238217%3B+out/feed/ 29 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F21%2Fmore-than-half-a-lifetime-ago%2F&seed_title=More+than+half+a+lifetime+ago%26%238230%3B http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F21%2Fmore-than-half-a-lifetime-ago%2F&seed_title=More+than+half+a+lifetime+ago%26%238230%3B#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:07:27 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6218 Twenty two years ago today, the skinny, scrawny, baby-faced, bobble-headed, scared-shitless, chip-on-my-shoulder, had-something-to-prove, 18-year-old version of me shipped off to...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F21%2Fmore-than-half-a-lifetime-ago%2F&seed_title=More+than+half+a+lifetime+ago%26%238230%3B/feed/ 10 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F20%2Fmi-casa%2F&seed_title=Mi+casa http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F20%2Fmi-casa%2F&seed_title=Mi+casa#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:31:41 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6204 So there it is...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F20%2Fmi-casa%2F&seed_title=Mi+casa/feed/ 24 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F19%2Ftalk-to-the-hands%2F&seed_title=Talk+to+the+hand%28s%29 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F19%2Ftalk-to-the-hands%2F&seed_title=Talk+to+the+hand%28s%29#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:30:44 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6195 Have something you want to say to this one, or some parental directive you need for her to obey? Well, consider this photo a visual representation of...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F19%2Ftalk-to-the-hands%2F&seed_title=Talk+to+the+hand%28s%29/feed/ 11 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F09%2Fstart-spreadin-the-news%2F&seed_title=Start+spreadin%26%238217%3B+the+news%26%238230%3B http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F09%2Fstart-spreadin-the-news%2F&seed_title=Start+spreadin%26%238217%3B+the+news%26%238230%3B#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 00:57:18 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6154 I always knew one day I'd finally make it onto...]]> 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+0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6144 And then the Fourth of July came, and instead of putting up a Fourth of July post and celebrating our nation's birth with my family, I was...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F06%2Fhappy-birthday-america-you-dont-look-a-day-over-234-you-look-two-days-over-234%2F&seed_title=Happy+Birthday%2C+America%21+You+don%26%238217%3Bt+look+a+day+over+234%21+%28You+look+two+days+over+234.+Sorry+I%26%238217%3Bm+late.%29/feed/ 15 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F01%2Fbe-there-or-be-square%2F&seed_title=Be+there+or+be+square http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F01%2Fbe-there-or-be-square%2F&seed_title=Be+there+or+be+square#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:02:15 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6138 And in my latest installment of "You know you have ADD when...," I present you with...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F07%2F01%2Fbe-there-or-be-square%2F&seed_title=Be+there+or+be+square/feed/ 15 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F06%2F30%2Fstringing-you-along-in-grand-fashion%2F&seed_title=Stringing+you+along+in+grand+fashion http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F06%2F30%2Fstringing-you-along-in-grand-fashion%2F&seed_title=Stringing+you+along+in+grand+fashion#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:58:29 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6132 See, here's the thing about having a woefully neglected...]]> 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Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6125 The family-crisis hurricane that was raging when last I posted...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F06%2F28%2Fhow-grand-2%2F&seed_title=How+Grand+%28which%2C+it+turns+out%2C+is+a+headline+I%26%238217%3Bve+already+used+%26%238230%3B+but+this+parenthetical+acknowledgement+of+that+fact+will+distinguish+this+entry+from+its+predecessor%29./feed/ 9 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F06%2F14%2Fup-as-in-the-direction-in-which-my-sons-age-is-headed%2F&seed_title=%26%238216%3BUp%26%238217%3B+%28as+in%2C+%26%238216%3BThe+direction+in+which+my+son%26%238217%3Bs+age+continues+to+go.%26%238217%3B%29 http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F06%2F14%2Fup-as-in-the-direction-in-which-my-sons-age-is-headed%2F&seed_title=%26%238216%3BUp%26%238217%3B+%28as+in%2C+%26%238216%3BThe+direction+in+which+my+son%26%238217%3Bs+age+continues+to+go.%26%238217%3B%29#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:09:11 +0000 Daddy Scratches http://daddyscratches.com/?p=6109 I'm in the middle of preparing...]]> http://daddyscratches.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fdaddyscratches.com%2F2010%2F06%2F14%2Fup-as-in-the-direction-in-which-my-sons-age-is-headed%2F&seed_title=%26%238216%3BUp%26%238217%3B+%28as+in%2C+%26%238216%3BThe+direction+in+which+my+son%26%238217%3Bs+age+continues+to+go.%26%238217%3B%29/feed/ 17