When we first e-mailed pictures of our wee newborn to his grandparents, one of them responded, “Looks like a future president!” My reaction was a proud chuckle; my wife’s was mild horror. “I would NOT want him to be president,” she said. Not even a little? I’ve been thinking about that question ever since. Extreme …
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Let me stipulate up front, for those readers unhappy about my having poked fun at really small people (who happen to look like old men dressed up as newborns): What I’m about to write about is not funny. Not at all. Not a little bit. Definitively not funny. There. Can I proceed to make fun …
The NY Daily News, always on top of the important stuff, has this item about a Danish-Norwegian artist named Nina Maria Kleivan who made unusual sartorial choices for her baby for a photo essay. MomLogic has a fuller gallery: it’s not just Baby Hitler, but Baby Mao and Baby Khomenei. From an interview Kleivan did …
When I came home from the airport yesterday afternoon, things did not go quite as I’d hoped. That is, Sasha did not bound through the door into my open arms, screaming “Daddy!” Instead, she was still in the fog of sickness, drips dripping from her nose, eyes a little crusty. She was clingy and weepy …
