Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant recently criticized a predominantly white church in his state for refusing to allow a black couple to wed in its sanctuary because they were “uncomfortable with…
This post is being written by request. I say this because every time I write a post that implies that I know something about parenting, I receive a mixed bag…
Ever notice that men are much more likely to assign nicknames or use surnames when two or more people share the same first name, whereas women are not? Why is…
In the midst of a deer forest where you get to pet and feed actual deer, my daughter decided that the rocks and dirt were much more interesting than the…
The Guardian has launched "Six Songs of Me," a project to map as many personal playlists as possible in an effort to understand the intersection of music and culture better.…
More than a month ago, my wife and I thought that our home had become infested with bed bugs. Over the course of a week, we began getting bitten, presumably…
Cardboard tube fighting, the game that I played with my brothers and sisters when we were kids, is now a thing. There is even a Cardboard Tube Fighting League. The…
The video below is perfect example of life with two children as opposed to one: When one child is happy, something can go tragically wrong with the other one. Not…
Earlier in the week my wife and I brought the kids to a perfectly lovely children’s museum called Imagination Nation. It’s actually one of my favorites. My daughter could spend…
Congratulations to Sheree Gillcrist, whose name was randomly selected from a pool of more than 100 respondents who were kind enough to offer ideas for the name of my forthcoming…