parenting – DAVE GIPSON

Fathers, Sons, Grandfathers, & Friends

parentingJanuary 28, 2025617Views 0Likes 0Comments

You can usually find them at any barbershop. A group of men talking is a kind of jazz performance. One man begins by improvising an initial melody. Then another responds with a counter melody, similar to the other while building on it. It’s fun to be in the middle of, and it makes men feel…

When you’re a father…

belief, parentingOctober 24, 2024762Views 0Likes 0Comments

My girls are taking swimming lessons now. One has almost perform form on her strokes. Watching her swim is a thing of beauty. But the other one? She flails about like a goose trying to take off. Her arms flap on top of the water like a basset hound’s oversized ears. Does watching her give…

Being There

parentingSeptember 5, 2023553Views 0Likes 0Comments

This is one of my favorite photos, when Gracie ran up to hug me at the end of my POLLYANNA musical performance. It was a show I had worked on off-and-on for almost 10 years. And she and her older sister were a major part of the inspiration for writing the show to begin with.…

Have another piece of pie

parentingNovember 21, 2018736Views 0Likes 3Comments

Of our three children right now, Gracie is the least serious-minded. But she always demands to say the prayer at dinner each night. At first, it was the prayer she learned in her Christian preschool: “God is great, God is good…” Every night, she’d clasp her little hands together and say the entire prayer, while grinning…