Pete Gilbert

This past Christmas season, the five of us spent extended periods of time with family over the holidays. We got to see all sorts...

"Congrats! You owe me one million dollars." These were the words, from a mother to her son, the day he was chosen in the first...

Last week First Born pet sat for the first time. She was in charge of feeding the neighbor's fish. Which really meant, I was...

When First Born was three, her teacher asked me if we were planning a trip to Africa. The teacher said all First Born talked...

Even though our oldest is only in the 4th grade, my wife and I have already started thinking about college for our kids. We've done...

Drive your own car. There's not a worse way to start a field trip, than sitting on a school bus with two dozen five...

I'm not going to lie, even though it's only been open for a couple of weeks, I've already been to the Teenage Mutant Ninja...

This post is mainly crowd sourced information, and for that I thank the followers of my Facebook page, A Dad Influence. Here's the question I...

Over one hundred fourth grade girls stood impatiently at the starting line. It was the first cross country meet of the season. POW! When...

Yogi Berra was a baseball legend. He was also just as well-known for the things he said. Many of his wise words could directly be...