parenting – DAVE GIPSON

Fathers, Sons, Grandfathers, & Friends

parentingJanuary 28, 2025187Views 0Likes 0Comments

Most men don’t have friends. If you mention that to them, they'd argue they do. But what they are calling a “friend” is what women would call merely an “acquaintance”. Most of us have loads of acquaintances we “shoot the bull” with, matching that last guy’s tale with our own similar story or observation. You…

When you’re a father…

belief, parentingOctober 24, 2024184Views 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, 2023179Views 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.…

CHOOSING CHAOS

Blog, parentingMay 9, 2023126Views 0Likes 0Comments

I really wasn’t looking to adopt again, not at this point in life. Our two little girls are 8 and 9, and we’ve got grandkids now just a few years behind them. So at this point, I’ll be attending my kids’ graduation ceremonies using one of those walkers with the tennis balls on the legs!…

Have another piece of pie

parentingNovember 21, 2018234Views 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…