Fifty years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space, preceded only by dogs and rockets. Twenty years ago, in a profoundly less celebrated event, I started learning Russian in a public high school classroom in San Francisco. The first essay I ever translated from our Russian textbooks was a short …
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Say Uncle!
Busy, busy around here, but the overwhelming event of the last week was the birth, after just the right amount of gestation, of my first nephew ever: baby Charlie. I am now not just a father. I am an uncle. Becoming an uncle may mean different things to different people. They say some people aren’t …
A Week on the Wagon: Quality Over Quantity Edition
It’s hard to know how closely the people who read this blog pay attention to what we’re up to. It’s easy to imagine extremes: either everyone notices everything (as we do) or no one notices anything (I haven’t read any of Matt’s posts in six months). I know it’s likely more toward the latter, but …
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DadWagon Q&A: War Photographer Robert King
As I wrote about earlier this week, I’ve been a little obsessed with the question of how to balance my responsibilities as a father whose kids (presumably) need him and as a journalist who sometimes needs to go into (presumably, somewhat) dangerous situations. Who better to talk with, then, than Robert King, subject of the …
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