Cranky Dad: Fatherhood, Life and Otherwise
Ali NooraniIt is a big world with lots to talk about. And I am now an old-man-girl-dad. So, I’ve started a Substack so I can share my latest take on fatherhood, life and otherwise. Come for the bitterness, stay for the recipes.
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Do Not Look Away
We can pretend it isn’t happening. We can look away. We can immerse ourselves in the normalcy of our lives.
This is not the world we expected to be living in. This is not the world I wanted to raise Anisa in. But, it is.
We can’t preten...
A Good Goodbye
If you were driving along the Eastern seaboard this holiday break and saw an old-man-girl-dad enthusiastically lip-syncing “Let It Go” while his three-year-old daughter belted out the lyrics from her car seat, well, that is my life these da...
Good Vibes All Around
It was the summer of 1986 and I was well down the “Highway to the Danger Zone.” Which explains why my first concert was seeing Kenny Loggins headline the 1986 California Mid-State Fair. Fortunately, my taste in music improved over the years...
Catching Beautiful Rainbows
The paperwork of old age is a thing.
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What makes for a good story?
I wish I had read the classical Greek myths and spent significant time with Shakespeare. People who understand the roots of story see th...
The Great Garnish Battle of 2025
A bit of context since Cranky Dad got a national shout out the other day and we have a new reader: This is a note that began many years ago as a Sunday night missive to a handful of people on all things immigration. Over the years, people w...
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Author of a couple books, like to think I do good things for work, now trying to keep my head above water as an old-man-girl-dad. Thoughts, prayers and subscriptions welcome as I share stories from life as a new father on the back end.
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