I broke my front tooth once, when I was about 8 years old. With a hammer. I’d been doing some project (building a treehouse, I think) when I tripped, dropped the hammer, and saw it bounce up off the ground, directly into my face. Chipped off a third of my top right central incisor–a brand-new …
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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 …
The Tantrum: Should You Have Another Goddamn Kid? Part 4
To tell you the truth, I’m surprised we’re even having this discussion, because I was somehow under the impression that all the Men of Dadwagon (and, more important, the Women of Dadwagon) were through with childbearing. Until Theodore told us his happy news, that is. I have to figure that next Matt is going to …
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Life, Explained
You know, sometimes you feel as though a large chunk of your life can be boiled down to a few paragraphs, even a few sentences. But hats off to Our Lady of Perpetual Breadcrumbs, a momblogger who seems to have got it all into this one pithy sketch. Look me in the eye and tell …