About me

Hello!

My name is Art Pen­nom and I’m a forty-something father, hus­band and lawyer. I live in the south­east­ern United States where I was born and where it’s nice and warm most of the year.  I have two won­der­ful kids that are grow­ing up way too fast and a beau­ti­ful wife that patiently sup­ports my pas­sion of writ­ing and web­site design even though I’m not very good at either.

This blog’s hum­ble beginnings…

A Dad’s Life started as an online jour­nal of my life as a dad. It fueled my desire to write and gave me an excuse to tin­ker with HTML, CSS and Pho­to­shop. I thought of it as an online record that my chil­dren can some­day visit and learn about me in a way that day-to-day inter­ac­tion can­not con­vey. They could read about my inner thoughts and feel­ings and this dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive may give them a more com­plete knowl­edge of who I am. I guess I was teach­ing them another les­son– some­times it takes chang­ing your per­spec­tive to really know some­body.

What this site is today…

Since it’s hum­ble begin­nings in 2005 as a sim­ple blog about me, A Dad’s Life has mor­phed into a tool for me to pay it for­ward to other dads. Although it remains a jour­nal for my kids, I also spend a lot of time research­ing and read­ing to improve myself as a dad, hus­band and per­son. I take the oppor­tu­nity to share my find­ings and expe­ri­ences with the broader uni­verse of dads by way of this site. My sin­cer­est hope is that a dad out there finds some­thing I write use­ful and helps him be a bet­ter father, hus­band and/or human being.

What I ask of you…

If you’ve taken the time to read all the way down to here, I truly thank you. I’m hon­ored and touched that you find this site inter­est­ing enough to have done that. I will work hard to con­tinue to make A Dad’s Life valu­able and use­ful to you.

I do ask a favor from you. If you enjoy read­ing this site, please sub­scribe to it. It is the only way for me to get a gauge of how well I’m doing. Thanks again.