About Me

Welcome to the crazy world that is A Father Speaks. This site is a blog (weblog) about life, kids, family, relationships, love and whatever else life takes the time to throw in my way.  Through these pages I hope to do wonderful, creative and inspired things… At least if I can find the time to do wonderful, creative and inspired things while juggling the responsibilities of father, grandfather and head zoo keeper of a very active family.

My name is Jerry Russell and I’m responsible for the content on this little slice of the internet.  I am a Husband to the most wonderful woman in the world, father to six, four with developmental disabilities and grandfather. I’ve lived a crazy, twisted, hilariously sort-of-tragic life. But in the end, I’ve learned to laugh at most of it. After all. If you walked away from something to live another day, you’ve probably said “one day we’re going to look back on this and laugh.” I say why not laugh now?

Let’s face it. Life is a crazy, wonderful place and there is no better inspiration than the every day happenings of a family.  What I hope to achieve here is to show the lighter side of that.  We all need to smile. My goal is to gift each visitor with at least that.  If I can do more, great. If not, at least I’ll know that at least one person got to walk away just a little happier than they came.

At least that’s my goal.