My article in the Daily Breeze

I have a couple friends at the local paper here, The Daily Breeze. One of them, Toni, asked me to write something for them. Here it is:

Sometimes my 5-year-old just isn't all that jazzed about talking with her old man on the phone. It's a real sore spot for me.

When my wife and I divorced, the potential impact on my relationship with my daughter terrified me. Even when we were a complete family, she'd always been mommy's girl, so when I left our family home last January, I took with me my clothes, my Mac, my Clint Eastwood DVDs and an irrational fear I'd soon become nothing but a footnote in this little girl's life.

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