Tag: Father

• Daddy Tick Tock

  3:06am. He’s crying. The father groggily wakes and looks at the digital clock on the bedside table. The shrouded corpse far across the bed doesn’t move. He hears the seconds dripping.

  Andrew Whalan

  August 16, 2017

  Stories

  Child, Father, fatherhood, men, Parenting, Post natal depression, short stories

• Baby Crush

  A bald head crowned by a few curls peeks out. Two eyes large and watchful wait and see what I might do. I’m not moving. I stand silent. I’m a daddy statue. Tiny hands cover her eyes. She tries to catch my gaze. No way. I’m having no part of it. Not yet. She opens…

  Andrew Whalan

  March 28, 2017

  Stories

  Child, Childhood, Family, Father, Fiction, Humour, men, Parenting, Relationships, short story, women

• The Glass Slipper (4) : She Met Me First

  It was too dark to film in the pre-dawn twilight. And too hazardous to set up cameras and lights. Or send over their dumb drone in case it crashed and couldn’t be retrieved. Occasionally, rarely, reality TV did have its benefits and now was one of them. Lonely at last, I thought. But, of course,…

  Andrew Whalan

  August 13, 2016

  Stories

  Father, Parenting, reality tv, short stories, short story, the glass slipper

• The Dad Interview

  It started as I’m the family blog expert. My sister wanted my Dad, Kevin Whalan to create a blog and record his memories. So I took it on and found that the blog had been started. But there was no content. So I tidied it up and passed it on to Dad. And he added…

  Andrew Whalan

  March 17, 2015

  Personal

  Canowindra Star, Father, Home, journalism, Kevin Whalan, Princess Diana, talk to me

• Sex and Vacuuming : A Game of Mutual Selfishness

  Kathy Lette’s If Your Wife Doesn’t Want Sex Then Try Doing the Vacuumming article echoes the Annabel Crabb‘s The Wife Drought re having it all and needing a wife. Like the old expression, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage“, there isn’t much of that anymore. Yes, unfortunately, I’ve heard this all before. In the throes…

  Andrew Whalan

  October 19, 2014

  Personal

  Father, Feminism, Humour, husband, Love, marriage, men, Mother, Relationships, Romance, wife, women

• Of Happier Things

  And now to speak of happier things as my Dad says. As you may have already read, my sister was married last week. How I did behave at her reception? Perfectly. Well almost. I spoke to anyone and everyone. I said this wedding shows the good you do returns to you. Let there be more…

  Andrew Whalan

  December 17, 2012

  Personal

  Family, Father, Home, Parents, Relationships, wedding

• Father and Daughter : Spiders and Cobwebs

  Yesterday when I got home from work I couldn’t check my post box or even open my front gate. My way was blocked. By a little girl standing in front of my house. Who of course was no threat. She didn’t even notice I was there. She was busy staring quite intently at the front…

  Andrew Whalan

  November 8, 2012

  Personal

  Cobwebs, Daughter, Father, Parenting, Spiders

• Pickles Is Dead (A Children’s Imaginary Friend)

  The phone is buzzing. In my state of near-sleep, I don’t know if it is the alarm or a phone call. (Mental note: Change phone alarm tone). I scrabble at the phone on the bedside table and just grab it before it falls. I realise it’s a phone call, press the green phone button, and……

  Andrew Whalan

  March 5, 2012

  Stories

  Child, Death, Father, Home, Pickle, Star Wars, Yoda