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Compiled by Heather B. Armstrong, award-winning publisher and uber-mistress of the phenomenally popular dooce.com®, this hilarious and heartwarming celebration of “everything dad” features original stories from some of the country’s most celebrated bloggers, including Alice Bradley (Finslippy) Doug French (Laid Off Dad), Maggie Mason (Mighty Girl), Matthew Baldwin (Defective Yeti), Sarah Brown (Que Sera Sera), and more.
From a new father’s comparison of pregnancy to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, to a mother’s story of bravely surviving a husband-son infatuation with Star Wars, to the mini triumphs and tragedies of toddlerhood, this book provides a unique, no-holds-barred glimpse into the quirks and candid moments of modern dads.
Whether we relish or fear growing up to be like our fathers…whether we’ve inherited his nose, sense of humor, or entire value system, our dads loom large in who we are and the choices we make. Things I Learned about my Dad in Therapy touches upon the many joys and discoveries of fatherhood, one essay at a time.
Heather B. Armstrong is the award winning publisher of dooce® (dooce.com). She gained notoriety in 2002 as one of the first people to be fired because of a blog, and in 2005 dooce.com was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 50 Coolest Websites. Armstrong has been on Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, and ABC's World News Tonight as a featured commenter on both blogging and postpartum depression, as well as profiled in the New York Times Sunday Style section and the Washington Post Weekend Magazine. She was published in Real Simple's Family edition in August, 2007.
Armstrong lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband, daughter, and dog. I Said Stop Throwing Peas! DAMMIT!
In this collection of true life tales from the trenches of parenting, Heather B. Armstrong, creator of dooce.com, brings together some of the best and brightest voices of the blogosphere to share their fears, foibles, and fantastic moments of fatherhood.
Bracingly funny, cheerfully cranky, and always honest, this charming collection of essays redefines the notion of the “modern American family”, and reads like a love letter to fatherhood.
“Not My Problem” by Bill Farrell
“I couldn’t believe that the hospital let us take a baby home and we don’t even have a manual. How could they be so irresponsible? In time the manual wrote itself. What they never told you is that your child will write the manual, adding a few words every day. As a father my job was to support the author, edit the work when I could and hope that the book would be a best seller.”
“Peas and Domestic Tranquility” by Greg Knauss
“There's a scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where two velociraptors distract a smarter and better armed dinosaur hunter, so that a third—sharp-eyed and with a mouthful of daggers—can sneak up on him from the side and leave his intestines piled up at his feet. That's what our house is like.”
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