Misplaced priorities
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…
Six questions about music that define you
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.…
It wasn’t bed bugs. It was just an exceptionally rare form of canine scabies. That’s all.
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
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…
Just when everything was going so well…
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…
Ugly baby
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…
Podcast naming winners announced
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…
First bottle. Probably the last bottle.
After two months of begging and pleading to “help feed Charlie,” I finally allowed my three year old daughter, Clara, to give him a bottle. The first photograph was…
Watch. Laugh. And be very afraid.
I thought this was a joke. I assumed that it was a satirical outlook on the creative hazards of product placement. As an author who has been accused of product…
Einstein was dumb
Not about many things, but about this: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” I’ve always hated this definition. I wouldn’t call it…
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