So, the first monthly presentation of “DadWagon Presents” went off relatively well! All our speakers showed up—that’s Paul Ford, Peter Meehan, and Jeff Yang, who actually arrived so early he had time to go home, beat his children, and return to Pacific Standard to kick off the reading. And it’s a reading we can now …
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Am I A Jew? The book, the website, Facebook fan page, and hopefully a commemorative lunchbox
Dear incredibly committed, loyal, and well-read DadWagon readers, Some of you, from time to time, may have noticed casual (or not so casual) mentions of a book, Am I a Jew: Lost Tribes, Lapsed Jews, and One Man’s Search for Himself, that I’ve been working on, well, for a long time. Guess what? It’s done …
To Pre-K or Not to Pre-K, That Is the Question
So, we got the letter: Sasha has a spot in a free pre-K program starting this fall! This puts us in a bit of a quandary—since we never thought she’d get in, we didn’t really figure out how we’d respond to an acceptance. Let me back up a bit. Universal pre-K, for those of you …
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Keep the Jew Away From the Fire
I’ve decided to share a post from my website, theodoreross.net, which I thought fit here because it is childhood related., it also happens to be something that I cut from my book. Online literary outtakes, ladies and gentlemen–read it here first: I think about this often, whenever I need a reminder of my futility as …