Clare's Dad

Once again I’ve slacked off on posting and reading.  Clare is going to ballet three times a week now, I’m working odd hours that involve time at home and at the theater, I’m writing at least two posts a week for UpTake (the largest travel search engine on the Internet after only six months), and holidays and birthdays have been thrown into the mix.  Something had to ease up.  Not to worry though, I’ll still try to be around at least a couple of times each week.  I’m here for you like that.

Something else that’s here for you is the new link I’ve added over in the sidebar to the Mom and Dad Bloggerhood hosted on Mama Dawg‘s blog.  When I first started blogging I thought it would be great to compile a list of all dad bloggers, and I blogrolled every one I could find.  I added to the list for a while, and I promoted the idea of having some kind of central directory of dad and mom blogs.  Eventually I gave up.  I still add blogs that catch my attention, but the number of dad and mom bloggers has grown so much that a definitive list in any one place is nearly impossible.   New dad and mom bloggers are probably moving into the ‘hood with us everyday.  It’s not just the award-winning, book-writing, side-splitting, tear-jerking bloggers that make this such a great place either—it’s the different perspective from every single one of us. (If you’re not on my own blogroll, by the way, you’re probably in my bookmarks to be added.  Give me a nudge and I’ll get that done.)

While I’m talking up dad and mom bloggers, I’ll point you toward a couple specific ones that caught my attention this morning.  Alissa at Life’s Little Adventures is celebrating one thousand posts!  Go congratulate her and read about the cool things her boys have done recently too.  Chag at Cynical Dad is always cool, but today he’s giving the moms wrapped up in the Motrin controversy something else to think about.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love being part of this bloggerhood.  Have a great week, everyone.

Fodor’s and Frommer’s have nothing on me.  Recently I was recruited to contribute to a new travel website called UpTake.  Some of the site is still in development—and the blog part of it is always adding content of course—but it already has an impressive amount to offer.

In its own words, “UpTake is a travel search and discovery site—the first step for travelers to decide where to go, where to stay or what to do. We help users make informed decisions about what best fits their travel preferences. We scoured more than 1,000 sites to collect 400,000 places to go, things to do and places to stay in the U.S. Then we analyzed and organized over 20 million travelers’ opinions to enable search based on exact travel requirements and preferences. See about UpTake for more information about our company.”

Some of you will get a kick out of my first post.  Believe it or not, I wrote about how great my part of the country is in the fall.  If you know me at all, you know that I think fall comes in second or third as far as seasons go.  But, I wasn’t going to wait seven or eight months to tell everyone how great it is around here in the summer.  I’ll just have to do another post about summer in the Litchfiled Hills next June or July.  Until then, I’ll be writing about other great locations in New England and New York.  Check me out and leave a comment. Maybe it’ll even convince you to come visit.