Just Beyond the Beginning
By Scott Rigdon Just Beyond the Beginning I’ve noticed recently that I take notice of parents of small children as I’m out and about. Fondly. Remember going to the grocery store with toddlers?...
View ArticleThe Occasional Hidden Treasure
By Scott Rigdon The Occasional Hidden Treasure As a divorced Dad, I often feel really bad about things my kids endure, or don’t have, because of the divorce. That list of things is too long to write...
View ArticleI Have a Beautiful Body
By Scott Rigdon Cooking dinner. That’s when it usually happens. I’m not sure why, but that’s when I get bombarded with the heaviest stuff. Is it because I’m facing away? Because I’m busy and...
View ArticleJagged Edges
By Scott Rigdon Jagged Edges Today marks 7 years no longer a slave to seizures, big pharma, or major medical intervention. Cheers to being the one in a million that got away. Sometimes I wonder if...
View ArticleWe Set the Sun
By Scott Rigdon Who doesn’t love a good sunset? I think that most people can enjoy and appreciate the beauty of one if they stumble upon it, even if it isn’t their favorite thing to watch. We do...
View ArticleFamily Traditions – Ladies in Red
By Scott Rigdon Ladies in Red Valentine’s Day is less than 5 months away! I’m all set. On the right in this photo is my Mommy. On the left is my Baby, wearing my Mommy’s Valentine’s Day dance dress...
View ArticleMake Me Wanna Make You Love me
By Scott Rigdon Make Me Want to Make You Love Me 21-March-2012 So I had lunch with both kids today, and while the details of lunching with 5th grade boys truly brought tears to my eyes more than once...
View ArticleKarmastrophic
By Scott Rigdon Karmastrophic 11-April-2012 Five years ago I had my last seizure. As much as I’d love to, and may yet, write a book about what led to my having seizures, and why I don’t have them...
View ArticleGuys Night Evolution
By Scott Rigdon Guys Night Evolution I love to tell people that Legos are brain food. They make you smart. I should have played with them more when I was a kid!!! Guys Night. Love it every time. I...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Hot Rod Magazine
By Scott Rigdon Open Letter to Hot Rod Magazine 20-May-2012 Dear Hot Rod Magazine, I was reading my June issue of Hot Rod over the weekend, and the more pages I turned, the more I got this creeping...
View ArticleA Word is worth a Thousand Pictures
By Scott Rigdon A Word is worth a Thousand Pictures 15-June-2012 I take a lot of pictures. Thousands. Literally more than 40,000 pictures since 2007. That’s a lot. Which makes me, in my book, a...
View ArticleSophiesynthesis
By Scott Rigdon Sophiesynthesis I know that, at first glance, this may look like just another cutesie Daddy/Daughter picture. Which it is. At the same time, it’s also an amazing snapshot of one of...
View Article“Daddy, do you think I’m smart?”
By Scott Rigdon Daddy, Do You Think I’m Smart? 25-July-2012 The other night, we were cooking dinner and Sophie asked me the simplest question: “Daddy, do you think I’m smart?” At first, I was kind of...
View ArticlePaper Airplane
By Scott Rigdon Paper Airplane Fancy that, I was driving the kids yesterday when they taught me this bit. I’m the driver. I was probably babbling on and on like I do, in fact apologizing for how that...
View ArticleThe Ties That Find Us
By Scott Rigdon The Ties That Find Us My biological dad died early in the morning September 26th. I hadn’t seen him in something like 20-25 years. The last time I actually ‘interacted’ with him...
View ArticleAs Dad, I Get It. Sadly, Yoplait Doesn’t.
By Scott Rigdon As Dad, I Get It. Sadly, Yoplait Doesn’t. For those of you not familiar with the commercials: This is how Yoplait sees Dads: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=2324364992681...
View ArticleCold Feet
By Scott Rigdon Cold Feet I realized recently that my recreational writing has come to a standstill! Allow me to remedy that with a heartwarming/footwarming story from the Grandpa Ezra files… Nana...
View ArticleThe Childrogen Cycle
By Scott Rigdon The Childrogen Cycle Remember those cycles from middle school science class? The carbon cycle? The nitrogen cycle? I only remember them because I’m re-learning them now along with my...
View ArticleDime Store Bear
By Scott Rigdon Dime Store Bear I suppose I’m showing my age by calling them ‘Dime Stores’, but when I was a kid, that was the place you went to wander around and look at stuff you probably didn’t...
View ArticleWhere Do Dads Come From?
By Scott Rigdon Where Do Dads Come From? The Boy asked me a question yesterday that I couldn’t answer. I still can’t answer it. He asked me where I came from. ? He asked it several times in several...
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