When I picked up my newborn son from the hospital on Sunday and finally brought him and my wife home, I had the unexpected pleasure of driving through Hartford’s Puerto…
My son was circumcised yesterday. I was not at the hospital at the time (appropriately enough, I was playing golf), but the doctor told my wife that Charlie didn’t cry…
Carlos Fuentes said in a 1981 Paris Review interview: “When your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing…
Allison Winn Scotch, in a piece in Psychology Today entitled Balancing Motherhood and Career, writes: And herein lies the catch that so many women wrestle with: we want lives with…
From a recent Wall Street Journal piece entitled Are Dads the New Moms? : A recent U.S. Census Bureau report found that 32% of fathers with working wives routinely care…
It’s a boy! In case you haven’t heard, my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy yesterday named Charles Wallace Dicks. Charlie was born at 3:09 PM. He is…
I had a third person inquire about hiring me as a professional best man this week. Unlike the first two, this potential client lives within the United States but on…
Barbara Walters had this to say about the recent TIME magazine cover: “This is such a guilt trip for working women.” Is it naïve of me to suggest that Barbara…
Here’s an idea I’m considering: Write a blog that examines the youth baseball culture in my town and/or neighboring towns, with specific emphasis on assessing and critiquing the coaching style…
My three-year old daughter, Clara, and her younger friend, Ella were playing upstairs while the adults were chatting downstairs. I was sitting at the top of the staircase, listening to…
