A moment that makes up for all the poop
As a parent, you never know when your child is going to do something that will cause your heart to soar (or sink). One minute your child is lying about…
Four audiobooks: One I loved, two I can’t wait to listen to, and one that annoys the hell out of me.
June is Audiobook Month! With this in mind, I stopped by my local Barnes and Noble yesterday to pick up Nichole Bernier’s debut novel, THE UNFNISHED WORK OF ELIZABETH D.…
Cost effective way of attending college
The New York Times recently ran a piece on the soaring cost of college:For all borrowers, the average debt in 2011 was $23,300, with 10 percent owing more than $54,000…
There are places (and moments) that I will always remember
My wife and daughter sang this song together night before our son was born. It’s one of those moments that a Daddy will always remember.
Resolution update: May 2012
I am six days late in posting my mostly lack of progress in terms of my yearly goals. On a positive note, I still have more than half of the…
A recommendation, a quandary and a stupid book that belongs in the trash
The books that are most popular with our three year old daughter eventually find their way off the shelf and into a wicker basket in her bedroom. As these books…
I brought my son home from the hospital and found myself in the midst of Hartford’s Puerto Rican parade.
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…
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…
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