Over at Salon, John R. Barry has come clean: “My baby is too boring to blog about” is the self-explanatory title of his story, posted today. Well. I’ve never met your baby, Mr. Barry, but don’t you think that this is more about you than about him? You’re a writer, man. Write something! And then …
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Within the Context of Parenting
George W. S. Trow was not widely known as a father. Fancy essayist, editor of the twee, proto-media-critic (in the days when Media might include painting, television, and opera all at once), but Daddy? Not so much. But his most famous work, Within the Context of No Context, which I highly recommend, does expend a …
Oil and Anger
From my good friend Kerry comes word of this front-page Key West Citizen report that the oil is, as feared, closing in on the southern Gulf. According to the Citizen: Fishing is banned in parts of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary west of the Dry Tortugas, where an oil sheen was 100 miles away and …
Henpecked at the Petting Zoo
This Memorial Day weekend, we stopped by Terhune Orchards in central Jersey, because what could honor our troops more than apple cider slushies, u-pick strawberry fields, and a fleet of broken-down toy tractors? All of that entertainment was secondary, however, to the little farm section of the orchards, where goats and geese and (sometimes) a …