Author: Dan Alatorre AUTHOR

  Actually, I’m not that greedy. Almost, but not really. Allow me to explain. When I was growing up, we visited my grandma and grandpa in Cincinnati on a regular basis. We also had regular holidays with my mom’s brothers’ families, and as a result, we were pretty close with my cousins even though they […]

We got the baptism part all squared away, and like good parents, we settled in for the task of parenting the new baby. That means lots of new purchases of stuff you didn’t think of during the three (yes, three) baby showers we held. Personally, I thought having three showers was a stroke of genius. […]

I knew there was a way to get my kid rebaptized (or something) into the Catholic Church. Maybe it would just cost more. Turns out, when I sat down with our local parish priest, that they will do an “acceptance” of the other church’s baptism, so when all the other kids are getting thrown in […]

Oh, my kid got baptized all right, and it counts, but the Catholic Church doesn’t just do a redo for the crowd. My bad. I was horrified. I had called over to our church to arrange the second baptism when I was unceremoniously informed that “we don’t do that.” I almost panicked, but since I […]

  Post Monday October 7, 2013 I promised myself that this wouldn’t be a tedious rerun of old Flintstone stories and other done-to-death sitcoms TV shows where the new dad is a bumbling stooge around the baby, and it won’t be. I hope. But the scatteredness of the following chapter reflects just how sleep deprived […]

I made eclairs!  I don’t know why, but I have been wanting to make eclairs from scratch for months now. So I did. I think I saw part of a cooking show that made it look easy to make eclairs. It’s not. But I tried it anyway.  And you know what I found out?  They […]

At what age does meeting a Disney princess stop being a big deal for a little girl?  Last year, when my daughter was 2 1/2 she met Cinderella on a Disney cruise. It blew her mind! The storybook princess, her favorite, brought to life and talking to her – you could see it was an […]

Every time the phone rings, my daughter says, “That’s Mommy! I will get it!”  The home phone makes a unique ring noise when it’s Mommy, so I know it’s not her. My daughter hasn’t figured that out yet.  “That’s Mommy!”  “No, it isn’t.”  “It is.”  “It isn’t, trust me.”  “It is.”  “No, it’s not.”  “It […]

I drive a black Lincoln Navigator. If you have one, and ever see another one in traffic, pull up right behind it and follow it for a few miles. Other cars start to get out of your way. They don’t think the President is in town, but they are pretty sure they don’t want any […]

The hardest part or being an author is being a marketer. All authors know people who have different jobs (construction, medical, whatever) and they say, I’m writing a book, or I have an idea I think would make a great book. Most of the time those books don’t get written. So for those people, writing […]