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Top 50 Dad Blogs of 2012
Last year, when we inaugurated our Top 50 Dad Blogs list, we praised dad bloggers for “changing the way we think about fatherhood.” Indeed, a number of our favorite bloggers on this, our second Top 50 list, insist our thinking needs to be changed. They describe themselves as advocates for fathers, taking to their keyboards in order to counter dominant cultural stereotypes of dad-as-incompetent-buffoon. (You don’t believe them? Tune in to most any family sitcom on most any night of the week.) Others on the list aspire simply to entertain us with funny, relatable tales from the trenches. A few write to work through the shattering grief of losing a child or spouse.
This list features straight dads, gay dads, working dads, stay-at-home dads, geek dads, single dads, and more. In a culture where the dominant conversations around fatherhood center simply on whether dads can deign to change their kid's diaper, it's refreshing to see these guys take the public perception of parents into their own hands. We are again struck by the variety of their voices and experiences, which itself puts the lie to the notion of any one “typical dad.” A lot of our favorites from last year are back, while many worthy entrants are making their debuts. We hope you’ll enjoy laughing, crying, nodding, and discovering along with them as much as we have. As dads' online influence grows, this list will only become more and more difficult to curate — and that's a good problem to have. If you think we missed any of your favorite dad bloggers, nominate them here. – Barbara Spindel and the dad blog panel
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Two Busy
TwoBusy, #17 on last year’s list, features the poetical musings of its unnamed author, who moonlights at the group blog DadCentric, among other places (he really is busy). Although the posts are sporadic, TwoBusy’s writing offers moments of beauty, as when he addresses his twin daughters as they turn 7: “In the slivers of light that slip between these heartbeats and bend upon themselves, blending each soft flutter of eyelash and whispered prayer into a cumulus of possible — of impossible made real — I find the capacity to believe there is something worth believing in.”
There are also reviews of books and albums and a recurring lobster motif. Why the lobster motif? Even TwoBusy himself doesn’t know for sure, but perhaps the blog is like the dish: It’s not on the menu every day, but when it is, it’s the best thing going.
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I am humbled to be included.
Many thanks.
Mitch