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Welcome to my blog. This is where the self-titled "Knight of the Living Dad" spills out the cerebral processes and digitizes them for the cyber-world to digest. I cannot claim genius nor idiocy, but I will promise to attempt fair, even-tempered and logical thoughts to pass my own self-censoring before making their way to this site. To receive an email when I post a new item, click here.

I won't even offer a suggestion that I won't offend anyone; however, this is not my goal. Nonetheless, my thoughts and opinions may not always be comfortable, but they should be considered sincere and honest. As a general rule, I offer everyone the freedom to respond and don't block or censor what people say in response to my posts. However, I will do my best to not allow this site to become a war zone or mechanism for harassment. Thus, I do reserve the right to remove or edit content that "crosses the line" judged in my own subjective way. This is detailed more under the Comment Policy.

Before you start this adventure of my random, bizarre and hopefully inspirational ideas, with a few gripes and complaints mixed in I'm sure - let me give a little history of who I am and why I have titled myself, "Knight of the Living Dad." It begins several years ago while being married and raising a family of three girls. For relevance, when the youngest was born, the older two were ages 8 and 11. Today, the baby is eleven.

During this family time, I often referred to the house as the place where the walls oozed estrogen. Of course I lovingly called it the Four Queens Palace. In fact, I have a tattoo of the Four Queens of a deck of cards to represent each of them. However, when the unexpected divorce happened, I considered myself the dethroned king. I felt much like Don Quixote, disillusioned and confused, longing for a time that no longer existed. I realized I was no longer (perhaps never was) the king and began to think of myself as a “knight.”

Soon Myspace became a new social outlet for me as I attempted to rebuild my life. Of course, playing on the “knight” theme, I changed my moniker to be various plays on the word. Soon, I had one of those moments where I stopped and examined what I was doing and asked myself if these was how I truly wanted to represent myself.

I began thinking about what I wanted to be and about the goals in my life. I considered what legacy I would leave behind. This led to a subconscious memory of a line from a Mike and the Mechanics song, where he wishes he could have made peace with his father in the “Living Years.” I realized I didn’t want to have my children connect with only the regret of my memory after I was dead. So, I decided to use one final pun to become “Knight of the Living Dad.” The rest is still progressing.

That said, I hope that everyone enjoys or is at least appreciative of what is said here.