From some guy who writes for some paper comes this harrowing tale of semi-public transportation along the South American highways—what happens when, in a shared minivan, a little boy says, “Mommy, I’m going to throw up.” Mom groggily tried to roll down the half-open window, but rolled it up instead. In the nick of time, …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
My Daughter the Bully
Sweep the leg, so goes the line. But it’s only funny if you’re talking about The Karate Kid (the original, not the execrable remake), or if you’re talking about what a dick someone else or someone else’s child is being. But when it’s almost 10 p.m. and you turn on the baby monitor for the …
Dad + Gadget = Fail, Crib Edition
Preparing for the Upcoming (which is what I’ve decided to call my daughter until she is born) is, as most parents know, a bummer. Shopping, planning, nesting, preparing said nest for nesting, is no fun. Perhaps my girlfriend (and definitely my mother) would disagree, but that’s where I am on the issue. It’s time-consuming, murderously …
Look Up Tonight
It’s July 20. Forty-one years ago, Neil Armstrong stepped down from the Lunar Excursion Module onto the fine gray dust of the Sea of Tranquility, and took one small step for [a*] man, one giant leap for mankind. The club of men who have walked on another world’s surface is the most exclusive imaginable: twelve …