Driving home from Connecticut yesterday, I was faced with the following, unusual question from my wife in the back seat: “Is the baby bipolar?” After my double-take, Jean explained: A few minutes ago, Sasha had been bawling in her car seat, inconsolable. But, since we’d stopped for soft-serve ice cream, she was now cheerily cooing—180 …
Monthly Archives: May 2010
A Week on the Wagon: the game we all can play
Loyal reader(s), Your four earnest and diligent Dadwagoners are, in a way, dinosaurs from a different era, an era of print, of publications read front to back, of stories (now known as content) sandwiched in between an archaic form of capitalist death ritual known as the advertisement. Ludditic relics of an earlier age we four …
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I’ll Tell You What the Goddamn Point Is: This.
Being a catastrophist by nature, I think about this all the time as I push my son down the street in his stroller: What would I do if a real emergency blew up in my face this very second? This guy knew: I hope to god that, at my advanced age, I have his reflexes.
Bad Dads We Love: Dad Camp!
This just in: Bad Dads We (sorta) Love are now going to be on television! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you’ve begged, you’ve pleaded, and now VH-1 will give you exactly what you want and/or deserve: a new reality series, “Dad Camp,” which “tasks unprepared fathers-to-be to step up and become a part of their children’s …