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A lot goes on in Dad’s House - stories, tips, opinions, and advice on dating, relationships, hookups, booty calls, two-home parenting and family life. All from the unique perspective of a modern single dad.
Relationships and Dating
- Internet dating – sadly, I’m a bit of an expert - why online dating doesn’t work
- Is the Dating Pool Really That Small?
- Be Wary of Dating Expert Advice Sites - some advice experts are snake-oil salesmen in disguise
- How to Marry a Millionaire
- The Apple Store - Best Place for Singles to Meet?
- When Online Dating Doesn’t Work, Use Your DNA
- An Online Dating Success Story
- How to Date Four Women at Once
- While Craigslist Sues eBay - Don’t Forget Tantric Sex
- Scarlett Johansson in a Sexy Threesome
- Eight Great Ways to Meet Someone New
- Supermarket Dating - Cure for the Common Online Date
- Napa and Sonoma Aren’t the Only Places to Meet Singles Wine Tasting
Dating for Single Parents
- Kid-Friendly Companionship With Benefits - a single parent’s dream
- Ten Great Reasons to Date a Single Dad
- There’s an Order to a Single Parent’s Relationship Universe
- What Does a Divorced Single Parent Know About Successful Relationships?
- Feminine Energy is a Very Good Thing
- How to Start Dating a Single Dad
- Single Parents are Missing Out on Intimacy
- You-Know-What-us Interruptus
- How to Pick-Up a Woman in Front of Your Son
- Calling All Matchmakers
Modern Dating - Texting, Hooking Up, and Booty Calls:
- Putting the EX in SEX - should you let an ex-girlfriend become a booty call partner?
- Hooking Up - I Just Want To Be Your Lover - notes from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and commentary from the dating trenches
- When a Married Man is a Wingman
- Ways to End Relationships (And Live to Tell…)
- A Sexy Flirty Dirty Text Message
- On Any Given Sunday I’d Be Cycling, So Why Am I Sick?
- Who Needs Protection? It’s Only a One Night Stand
- Flirty Text Messages on Craigslist
Single Parenting and Two-Household Family Concerns:
- Wouldn’t Both Single Parents Be Concerned About Their Children’s Health?
- Training with soccer moms for the Napa Valley Marathon - single dad as social pariah
- The Kids and their Mom are skiing for Ski Week… how can I compete? - spectating and collecting autographs at the Tour of California bike race
- Oh great, Another Bestseller with a Deadbeat Dad - divorced single parents in Tom Perrota’s The Abstinence Teacher, and other books and films
- I Fired My Cleaning Lady
- Single Parent, Empty House, Full Life
- Sorry I Made ‘Dad Gone Mad’ Madder
- Blended Families - Stirred, Not Shaken
- No Milk in the Fridge, But There’s Beer
- Since When Are Dads Not Important?
- Kids Are On Vacation, and I’m a Lone Wolf
- Men Who Read and Cook - Sexy or Unmanly?
- Best Single Parent Vacations EVER
- Auto Insurance is Double for Teens of Divorced Single Parents
Modern Family Life:
- My Daughter’s on Facebook - Can I Still Join?
- Passion, Talent, Heart and Soul - My Legacy for a Song
- Grilling With Grandpa
- Investment Advice From a Sixth Grader - a millenial perspective on money
- Birds, Bees, and Axe Body Spray
- Um, Good Morning, America?
- Gotta Be The Ice Cream Shoes
- My Teenage Daughter is a Fast Girl
- Why am I so Tired? My Kids Did All the Work
- Reggae Radio Bob Marley
- MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo IM - How Do Parents Eavesdrop Anymore?
- Grilling at the Graduation Picnic
- Way Beyond Soccer Dad
- Family Weekend
- Sex, Love, Marriage, Birth – Quick! Pick a Baby Name
- How to Talk to Your Daughter About Sex
Random Musings:
- Boys are the New Girls, Women are the New Men - by far my most popular post
- Salsa Dancing – Hot Latin Nights
- Feminine Language in Politics
- My Golden Retriever is Smarter Than Your Honor Roll Student - perspective, it’s all in our minds
- Pass the Kleenex, I’m Tearing Up - things that make this grown man cry
- Greg Norman’s Yacht Has Nothing On This
- Single Dad Seeking Single Mom Seeking Lunch
- Miley Cyrus Sexy Vanity Fair Pics – She’s Younger Than My Daughter
- Go, Daddy, Go! (But in Dockers?)
- Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt - Bringing the Heat - Who’s the Hottest Daddy Blogger
- Hotter Than David Archuleta’s Dad
- Kobe Bryant Jumps Pool of Snakes (with Jackass crew - video)
- Alt-Rock Music Trivia Quiz
- Cocktails and Booty - Ironman Rocked!
- A New Earth - Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
- Dirty Old Town
- Tour de France Autographs
- While Dad is Away, Guest Bloggers Will Play
Cocktails! Cocktails! Cocktails!
- Classic Gin Martini
- Bushwacker Cocktail Recipe
- Negroni Cocktail Recipe
- Vodka Martini Recipe with a Lemon Twist
- Friday Night Cocktails – Gimlet Recipe
- Thursday Night Cocktails - Cosmopolitan Recipe
Food Recipes
- How to Grill Asparagus
- Bruschetta Recipe
- Pasta With Peas Recipe
- Italian-style Carrots Recipe
- How to Cook the Best Grilled Salmon
Silicon Valley Moms Blog, Contributor:
- I’m a Mother!
- San Francisco Fireworks of Another Kind
- Tantric Sex
- Way Beyond Soccer Dad
- Calling All Matchmakers
- Sex, Love, Marriage, Birth – Quick! Pick a Baby Name
Kind Words from Others:
- Ms. Single Mama
- Single Mom Seeking
- Jorge Fitz-Gibbon at LoHud.com
- Honey and Lance
- Blogged.com Top Ranking, Comments, and Reviews
Other Reactions:
I’m not a big believer in online dating as a way to find a romantic partner. While it’s a great way to meet random strangers for coffee, drinks, dinner, or booty, it’s a terrible way to enter a relationship. It’s nearly a billion dollar industry, and with so much money to be made, most advice about online dating is to update your profile and try again, i.e. keep paying that service fee. Reports show that over 75% of people who online date are not very satisfied with the process. Psychologists have shown that chemistry is felt in-person by your whole body and not articulated by your mind ahead of time in checkboxes and essays. Sure, you can try the latest angle, like DNA-based matchmaking, but where does it end? Maybe we should all just give online dating a rest and re-learn the fine art of flirting with someone you meet in everyday life.
That said, I confess I’m an online dating expert, with stories to prove it:
- Confessions of a Serial Online Dater, part 1 (Craigslist coffee date gone bad) - lunch with CityGirl
- Texting for Chemistry – Confessions of a Serial Online Dater, part 2 - trying to meet SingleAttorneyMom
- What’s More Natural Than Nature? – Confessions of a Serial Online Dater, part 3 - hiking, rather than coffee, for a first date
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If all that wasn’t enough to tell you who is David Mott, writer, blogger, divorced single dad? I don’t know what is.
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