You gotta love the Internet. My three co-d‘s and I launched DadWagon in November with noble intentions: make earnest jokes, raise serious questions, commiserate about fatherhood in New York City and elsewhere. We hoped to get readers to drop by because they like the conversations we’re having here. And sure enough, we’ve been getting a good …
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Peter Orszag, President Obama’s budget director, got a little unwelcome tabloid attention this weekend. Just as his ex-girlfriend Claire Milonas gave birth to their daughter, Orszag announced his engagement to a TV-news reporter named Bianna Golodryga. The New York Post put this on its front page, with a lot of talk about his “secret love …
When I saw this Vespa rocking horse, my heart stopped. It is just too perfect—how is it that only now, today, this exists? I want it! But not for Sasha. She can have a blow-up bouncy elephant or whatever toddlers these days are riding. I want it for me. And that’s because I’ve given up …
I have never played golf with my father. Never went fishing. Went camping once or twice, but never on a hike. Never went skiing, horseback riding, played touch football in the yard (didn’t have a yard), and while I am old enough to have played stickball, it was with the father of the kid downstairs, …
