Dad’s House

Dating & Parenting by a Single Dad

How to Ask a Teacher Out

Posted on November 11th, 2008 | 42 comments

On Back to School Night this year, I asked out the teacher of one of my kids. Only problem – she’s engaged to be married. Oops! Readers weighed in saying:

I shouldn’t have pounced so quickly
I was now the talk of the teacher’s lounge
I had cajones

Recently a single dad stumbled upon that post, and wrote the [...]

Nude in Chains (An Actual Date)

Posted on November 6th, 2008 | 36 comments

The buxom blonde and I met by exchanging glances in a coffee house the week before. At the time, I was chatting with a buddy and she was talking with two girlfriends. To my delight, after I left, she approached my buddy and asked for my contact info. (I might have approached her, but it [...]

Tale of Two Couches

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 | 32 comments

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I was newly divorced and setting up my own place, and I took my kids furniture shopping at a nearby consignment store. By involving them in furnishing our apartment, they’d feel the place belonged to them and that they belonged in this strange [...]

Hot, Sexy, Confident

Posted on September 19th, 2008 | 21 comments

Do you ever get that I NEED ATTENTION feeling? You know, where you want another person, or maybe an entire community, to adore you? After my divorce, I sure did. I think a lot of single parents do. It’s that desire for someone to want you, someone to make you feel good.
Mama Llama recently wrote [...]

A Single Mom’s Dream Man

Posted on September 18th, 2008 | 39 comments

Last week I received an email from a single mom I’d never met. Seems she had a dream. She was sitting on a cliff in Ireland, taking in the beauty of it all, when a man approached her. “This is nice,” he said. Nice? It was beautiful. Perfect! She was annoyed with his flip attitude, [...]

Craigslist Dating – Watch Out for Spam

Posted on September 9th, 2008 | 13 comments

(My apologies if you saw this post in your feed yesterday. It went out a day early, then I pulled it back. Kind of like Entertainment Weekly reporting on the new Harry Potter movie a year too soon…)
Ah, Craigslist. That online Mecca of all things bartered and traded – tickets, bikes, furniture, jobs, apartment leases. [...]

Hot for Teacher

Posted on September 5th, 2008 | 33 comments

At Back to School night this year I had my antenna up for any single moms who might come my way. I’ve been playing the game of life, after all, with great success. It had already brought me the woman of my dreams.
The school has seven period days, and parents visited each of their child’s [...]