Gratitude journal: Clara in the morning
Tonight I am grateful that my daughter has finally adjusted to Daylight Savings Time. She awoke at 7:15 this morning, which meant that for the first time this week, I…
Tonight I am grateful that my daughter has finally adjusted to Daylight Savings Time. She awoke at 7:15 this morning, which meant that for the first time this week, I…
New rule (though it shouldn't be necessary) and a rule I teach my fifth graders every year: No more commenting on a pregnant woman's physical appearance. If my wife comes…
This was going to be cute, but my daughter told me to put the phone away so I would be available to clap. Kind of annoying.
Tonight I am thankful for the enthusiastic readers who have been engaging in a new form of live tweeting whereby they send me tweets as they make their way through…
In 2011, I suggested on this blog that I might make an excellent professional best man and offered my services to anyone interested. Thus far I have received three inquiries…
Bestselling author Ellen Potter’s recent interview in The Baltimore Sun featured this gem: [Encouragement] is important in this field, right? Oh, yes. One professor in college told me flat-out I…
Tonight I am grateful for Portlandia. Elysha and I watched the season finale of the show tonight. It’s freakin’ hilarious. Happily, IFC has greenlighted a third season of the show,…
This week’s Slate DoubleX Gabfest discussed how Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law Student who was called a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh, might be “the new standard bearer for sex-positive feminism.”…
So many parents have such a hard time getting their children to sleep at night. Some can’t stand the thought of listening to their child crying in the crib during…