CreativeDad

It’s not easy being creative - sometimes off-the-shelf just doesn’t cut it.
When we were expecting my daughter to come into the world, we decided to move Max into the room next door. Molly would take over his (then) current room. I looked at the move as an opportunity to exercise my creativity.
Within a day, I [...]

After the big layoff of 2001, I suddenly got the urge to make stuff.  Looking back, the creative spark that had been buried for many years finally got a chance to catch flame.
One of the first things I made was a dump truck bed for my son.  I knew that, if we wanted to keep [...]

One night, home alone with my son (who was 3 at the time), I was tired of playing the same games and suddenly figured out that we should make an obstacle course in the living room. Like a lot of memories, this one is so vivid because we had a blast doing it. I’ve recently [...]