Look, I know having children—literally producing children in your body—is not easy. It’s a challenge, an adventure, fraught with risks both physical and psychological, and, as Americans delay the age at which they procreate, often entangled in legal and medical bureaucracies. But can we give it a rest with the multi-thousand-word magazine treatments of complicated …
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Parent Crap, Reviewed: QwikShower Wipes
It was a typical late afternoon: I was bringing Sasha home, and Sasha was resisting being brought home. The subway was crowded, and the air inside was stifling. I was dressed for the outdoor chill, but now, as I wrangled Sasha off the F-train floor, I was beginning to sweat. A lot. By the time …
Subtropical Cabin Fever
I may have some trouble getting sympathy for this, but it’s been cold in Key West the past couple days. After a perfect Christmas day, temperatures drop, as they sometimes do here, to highs in the 60s and lows in the 50s. Which, given our wardrobe, has left me and the kids with the same …
NYC Demolition Derby
Since my children are into towtrucks AND frontloaders alike, I thought I’d post this little gem from the blizzard, in which the Department of Sanitation either let toddlers or meth-heads try to dig one of its vehicles out from a snowbank. It’s a bit long, and features gratuitous guy-in-boxers glimpses, but it’s nice reminder of …