Dax’s name came from a conversation with a friend on a rafting trip in central Indonesia. She’d just had a child and had a name for him: Dax. We were intrigued by it, me and my wife, Kris. I researched it and found that it’s actually an old French name, and the name of a spa town in southwest France. I later found out that it’s also the name of a character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a parasitic slug.
Dax is an only child. We would have managed with one more, but it didn’t happen. I was an only child and I’m fine, so we were fine with just one too. I was a very hands-on father and wanted to be, not
