You can’t lie to a man with a penis
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 understood me before I understood me
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…
Stop trying to monopolize the angst, ladies.
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…
Statistically speaking, am I the best husband and father of all time? And should I make my wife aware of these favorable numbers?
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…
What’s in a name? Several literary references.
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…
My career as a professional best man is hindered only by a lack of teleportation
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…
I suspect that working women are more mentally tough than Barbara Walters believes
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…
Exposing the lunatic Little League coaches for who they really are.
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…
Fostering disobedience
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…
Not exactly a solution to my existential crisis, but it’s a start.
I’m not sure where this bit of dialogue originates. I saw it posted on Twitter and immediately fell in love with it. It encapsulates an enormous part of my life…
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