It’s two hours of pain. It’s two hours of screaming at the TV. It’s two hours of smack-talking 30 women looking for love in the most unconventional way, in front of millions of viewers. The Bachelor is a show on ABC that everyone knows and you either love it or hate it. I hate it….
Author: Scott Oxarart
The Time My Kid Fell Out of a Shopping Cart – Why Talking About It Helped Me Heal
I have an embarrassing involuntary bodily reaction that happens the moment before a child is about to get hurt. My shoulders seize upward, my eyes squint and I usually jump backward and then do a 180 mid air. It’s as if my brain and my body are trying to keep me from witnessing a horrible…
3 Reasons Why Family Tailgates are More Than Just Football
It was late August, and I was backing out of my driveway on my way to the first Nevada football game of the 2019 season. As the garage was closing, my daughter, 2, screamed from her car seat, “My Wolf Pack chair!” I stopped the car and thought about it for a second. Does she…
Dad Spotlight: Veteran Garrett Crosby
Crosby ensures life-long admiration of daughter by opening Reno’s first Rita’s Italian ice and frozen custard chain Garrett Crosby was waiting for his luggage to arrive at the baggage claim in Philadelphia in 2017, so to pass the time he started asking locals about their favorite food spots. As you can imagine, there were countless…
List: Swim lessons in Reno-Sparks
The summer months in Reno can get hot. When it’s hot, you have to find water…and few things tucker out a youngster more than a day at the pool or lake. With the temperature approaching triple digits, many parents are enrolling their children in swim lessons – some just a few months after birth. And…
New Reno Topgolf Swing Suite is Way More Than Golf
The Silver Legacy Resort Casino in downtown Reno debuted its new Topgolf Swing Suite recently and many people, like myself, had a similar reaction. “Oh, it’s just like hitting a golf ball into a screen.” Wrong. For starters, and to be fair, THE ROW’s Topgolf is certainly not like the Las Vegas Topgolf, which is…
At the two-year mark, parenting is harder, better than I thought
A few months ago, I was trying to get my 1-year-old daughter ready for preschool. She was… uncooperative. As I gathered her shoes, she came running into the living room crying, holding her blanket and a stuffed animal. “No! Daddy!,” she screamed. “Stinky butt!” My daughter, who couldn’t yet complete a sentence, took a phrase…
Raise Your Kids to be Like the Nevada Men’s Basketball Team
With the game winding down against San Diego State on March 9, Nevada men’s basketball coach Eric Musselman took Jordan Caroline, Caleb Martin and Cody Martin out of the game. It was the last home game of the season, so Musselman subbed out the three players so that the sell-out crowd could give them the…
What I learned by walking my sorry ass to the bus stop, and why my kids will do the same thing
Near my home, a Washoe County school bus arrives at 7:57 a.m. every weekday to take students to a nearby elementary school. At this stop, a child from the neighborhood sits in their parent’s parked car about 25 feet from where the bus stops. When the bus arrives, the child gets out of the car…
Parenting can really be a pain in the… lower back region?
The afternoon of my bachelor party, I remember picking up my buddy from his house. As he walked to the car, his posture was stooped, his steps were short and he was holding his lower back. I thought he was joking about being old. He wasn’t. The pain only got worse the day after the…
I Won’t Yell at Referees Anymore, Thanks to this Facebook Page
New Facebook page raises awareness of parents who act like fools at youth sporting events, and deservedly so When I was a teenager, I experienced a rather embarrassing moment at a University of Nevada baseball game. The umpire made a call that everyone in the seats behind home plate disagreed with, including me. “YOU GOTTA…
Twitter on the Sh!tter: a fatherhood tradition passed down, and evolved
Saturday mornings in the Oxarart house are for breakfast. Eggs are a mainstay. Most of the time so are sausage, bacon, and potatoes. Pancakes, French toast, and biscuits and gravy offer a change of pace. A pot of dark roast coffee waits for us when we wake up. Around 9:30 a.m., after clean up, a…