Our NOT ANOTHER TV DAD column by CL Bledsoe reflects on his personal journey through parenthood and the meaning of fatherhood and family
CL Bledsoe is the author of sixteen books, most recently the poetry collection Trashcans in Love and the flash fiction collection Ray’s Sea World. His poems, stories, and nonfiction have been published in hundreds of journals and anthologies including New York Quarterly, The Cimarron Review, Contrary, Story South, and The Arkansas Review. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize fifteen times, Best of the Net three times, and has had two stories selected as Notable Stories of the Year by Story South‘s Million Writers Award. Originally from a rice and catfish farm in the Mississippi River Delta area of Arkansas, Bledsoe lives with his daughter in northern Virginia. He blogs at NotAnotherTVDad.blogspot.com
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CL Bledsoe on the hope of love and companionship and holding out for the right person
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CL Bledsoe on the power of one’s own name and helping his daughter claim her own identity
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CL Bledsoe on memories of his father growing up and healing through the next generation
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CL Bledsoe on the act of hope that is writing a novel
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CL Bledsoe on Huntington’s terrible tie to his family and the gift of memories in a notebook
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CL Bledsoe on scariness of vulnerability and the thrill of an honest relationship
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CL Bledsoe on the reality of being an adjunct teacher and how teachers are people too
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CL Bledsoe’s creative non-fiction story ‘If You Love Someone’
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CL Bledsoe on watching his daughter grow and become independent and learning to let go
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CL Bledsoe on managing all the feelings of a tough year and cultivating resilience through humor
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CL Bledsoe on memories of Halloween past and celebrating a child’s dream of being who they want to be
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CL Bledsoe on magic and superstition and the healing power of his daughter’s innocence
