Alan

Author's details

Name: Alan Kercinik
Date registered: May 3, 2009
URL: http://alwaysjacked.com

Latest posts

  1. Answering Jack’s Big Questions — May 17, 2012
  2. Wordless Wednesday: Frequent Flier Smiles — May 16, 2012
  3. Inappropriate Songs I Sing to the Boys — May 10, 2012
  4. My Son. The Whys Guy. — April 23, 2012
  5. How to Travel With Small Children — April 6, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Why I Hate Caillou — 58 comments
  2. Trading Places With My Wife — 15 comments
  3. Why I Took A One-Year-Old To Work — 14 comments
  4. 100 Words or Less About Love — 13 comments
  5. All About the Menjamins: Thoughts from the M3 Summit — 12 comments

Author's posts listings

Apr
25
2011

In Brightest Day, In Jackest Night

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Here’s all you need to know about Green Lantern, this a description from the writer Grant Morrisson. He’s the one with the wishing ring. Whatever a Green Lantern thinks, as long as he has the will, his ring can make …

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Apr
07
2011

Trading Places With My Wife

Parenthood is 97% improvisation.

I don’t mean this as any kind of insult, but I think of myself more as a writer than a blogger. And it isn’t because I’m some tortured soul who has an open bottle of whiskey sitting on his desk. …

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Apr
01
2011

Says Anything

I bought a notebook early in Lara’s first pregnancy with the idea that, when the child became a certain age, I’d give it to him/her. S/he could get a sense of who his parents were before and during his arrival …

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Mar
28
2011

Do I Have To Change the Name of My Blog?

The male version of morning sickness.

This is the new parenting: your wife tells you that she’s pregnant and a couple of things run through your head. When can I post about it? And since we’re going to have a second child, does this mean I …

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Mar
19
2011

City v. Suburbs: Part Two

If you squint, you can see our new place toward the back.

The suburbs are winning. Insert obligatory Charlie Sheen reference or demented cackle here. We’re moving, at the end of the month, from our Chicago condo to a house in a northern suburb. We’ve already started the long pack, which is …

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Mar
07
2011

Letters to Jack: Why You Should Read

This is the only age that this shirt is funny.

March 9 is World Read Aloud Day, a day I was tuned into by Chris Singer, a great dad and beyond prolific reviewer of books over at Book Dads. The day is being organized by LitWorld, whose mission is to …

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Feb
24
2011

Why I Hate Caillou

I am probably not alone in my parental aspiration to try and accept everything that Jack likes in life. But I hate Caillou. For the unitiated or childless: Caillou is a cartoon about a four-year old Canadian boy who is …

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Feb
12
2011

In Which I Promote Other Places I’m Writing

Because you’ve demanded it, I’ve embarked on a maniacal, single-minded quest to become the Oprah of Dad bloggers. If you enjoy my rambles here, I direct you to the below. If you hate my rambles here, then I direct you to …

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Feb
10
2011

Revisiting Childhood: Spider-Man

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Revisiting Childhood is an ongoing feature in which I re-experience something from my childhood, break down crying in remembrance of my lost innocence and write about it. (This is all true except for that middle part.) The plan, subject to …

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Feb
07
2011

My Two-Year Old Son Rates The SB Commericals

Jack spent the week sporadically yelling, “Super Bowl!” and “Football!” (I may have had something to do with this.) The two-year old mind, and especially the two-year old male mind, operates on a very basic level. I’ve already sussed out …

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