* 2019 * A year of ups and downs. I am playing drums for hit broadway show, a just got a new stick endorsement, I finally had am article in Modern Drummer, I’m performing on the Tony Awards for the second time this June…and my mom passed away a few weeks ago. It was a…
Read moreMy Mother – Rosalyn Lee Craddock
My mother. Rosalyn Lee Craddock She died on Sunday April 28th, 2019. 85 years on planet earth. My family knew she was dying for a while but it’s different when it actually happens. She had several different health issues but was diagnosed with lung cancer last fall. She had several chemotherapy sessions,…
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National Parents Organization: Shared Parenting… It’s Obvious
Words Of Wisdom
“I’ve told you a million times son, you can’t take my car out until you are 16! And even then, you gots to pay for my insurance before I even think about giving you keys to this beauty.” “Now, as I was saying…remember that the hypotenuse of synchronized funk drumming is parallel to the cis-gendered…
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Divorced dads: Family court system is broken -Lisa Ling
You all are so behind this #metoo stuff? Good. Here is another movement we all should rally around. Alienated parents. The ability for fathers to share equally in the rearing of their children. Shared parenting as the default in divorce cases in all 50 states. Ten years ago when I was going through my ordeal,…
Read moreLabor Of Love
I have an idea for a new reality series. It’s called “Labor Of Love.” It will chronicle the lives of men who want to “have it all.” This show will follow men in their thirties who fight and scrape their way to corporate success and have a great time on the New York City dating…
Read moreToo Little-Too Late
I woke up a few days ago to a tweet from Paul Elam linking an article on his site “A voice For Men.” It was called A Father’s Lament. I have been reading A Voice For Men for years. I stopped over the past few because I haven’t found the information useful at this point…
Read moreHow do you spell dad? It goes L-O-V-E
Waking up at the crack of dawn sucks. It just does. Well, it does for me. I’ve never been a morning person. I never will be. I like to get up at about 9 or 10AM. Well, that’s just not the life I’ve chosen to live. You see, I get up so early for a…
Read moreSingle Fatherhood in New York City
Back in 2012, I completed an interview for a Columbia University graduate student of journalism named Acacia Squires. She found me through a post I made on a website about single parenthood and thought I would be a good person to talk with about my experiences being a single father in New York City. I…
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