Back home, Nora and I handed out a little candy, then read a couple of genuinely creepy library books in front of a nice fire—hey! a fire I built! Myself! Nora was asleep within five minutes of heading to bed. That was just after 8, and then things took a scary turn.
Monthly Archives: November 2010
“Trick or Treat?” (A.K.A. The Lollipops! The Fucking Lollipops!)
Not that I really have much experience in these things, but if you want to witness a toddler’s full emotional spectrum, Halloween is a pretty damn good time to do so. I mean, if you’d seen Sasha yesterday—running along the bumpy sidewalks of Brooklyn in her Old Navy bumblebee costume, jazzed on candied sucrose, warbling …
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Here Be Mobsters! 13 Ways of Looking at New Jersey, Part 1
In which a guest blogger inaugurates his week on Dadwagon with his first post on life in New Jersey, discussing cute home signs, Fort Greene, brunch, Todd Solondz, demographics, Halloween, “Here Be Monsters,” and other observations from the wrong side of the Hudson.
Baby New Year Arrives, Bearing Change
DadWagon is a year old today, and you’ll see much more about that in the posts above and below. But first, a note about the news that Team Dadwagon announced here a couple of hours ago. The millions of you who visit DadWagon regularly may have noticed that I’ve been posting less frequently of late. …