This book is a humorous look at parenthood. A collection of anecdotes of a father providing childcare for his two young daughters, ages two and six, as he watches his neat house turn messy, his wardrobe go surplus, his car turn into a minivan which is really a giant purse full of dirty diapers, scarps of food, toys, games, kids clothes and unknown things he is afraid to touch. Answering the door with food in his hair or wearing socks that don't match are no big deal. Eventually he begins to accept the fact he may never again feel rested, well dressed, attractive or even eat his food while it is still hot. But the hardest adjustment is constantly being surprised when at the least appropriate moment he hears, "Daddy I need to go potty." Every parent will relate to these true stories that in retrospect make one smile and laugh but at the time...aspirin was invented for parents. I grew up urban, ethnic and working class. All my family and all their friends were steel workers.I was the oldest of six children. At the age of ten my mother had four children under the age of five. My entire youth was engulfed with children. I was in my mid-twenties and could still smell the diaper poop under my fingernails. In 1972 I had my first short story published. Two years later I had a second story published. Over the next three years I wrote three novels about the Mexican-American experience. None were published. In 1975 I began freelance writing for newspapers and magazines and had two poems published.In 1984 our first child was born and I landed a job as a feature writer for a weekly newspaper. Baby in arms, I created every type of newspaper article from hard news to sports to features to editorials. This is also when I first started writing columns about my daughters.In 1993 my brother John, who lived in New York City, approached me about collaborating with him on a play. He was convinced that he could find a producer for a play about Mexican-Americans written by Mexican-Americans.In 1994 the Castillo Theatre Company produced our first play, Who Will Dance With Pancho Villa, off-Broadway. In 1995 my second book was published, I Remember Healdsburg, a collection of oral histories.In 1996 the New Latino Visions theater company produced, at Brooklyn College, our second play, Cesar Died Today. In 2003, my brother and I collaborated to write a short film Stories of the Season that was produced as part of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum Mexican-American History Planetarium Presentation, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Currently I am working on two collaborations with my brother. One is a non-fiction book about Las Gallinas, a group of Latino women baseball players in the 1940s. We are also working on a third play, tentatively titled, Back Porch.I also continue to work on my own long-term project a book titled, Mill Rats, a fiction suspense novel loosely based on my personal experiences as a steel mill worker in the Chicago area.Writing has been my life's work. I have had success in a variety of genre and many years of front-line work as a journalist. I have never made much money but writing is what I do.