It was a week of what the philosophers of science call “paradigm shifts” here on the Dadwagon. Ted’s was life-altering, as his divorce became official. Nathan’s was similarly significant: there was appropriately contained peeing, and possibly a tattoo to commemorate same. Christopher’s wasn’t quite as earth-shaking, but his child did produced his very first sentence …
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A Week on the Wagon: Distraction Edition
Offline life kept the Dadwagon from kicking into top gear this week. Matt was off cultivating his new gig, prowling around Ireland with limited Internet access, and thus leaving his wife to deal with a potential day-care crisis. Nathan was filing steadily from jury duty, which provided both quiet time and just enough slow-grinding court …
A Week on the Wagon: Mood Disorders
From vacation to staycation: DadWagon celebrated the long holiday weekend by actually hanging around in New York. Actually, Christopher had planned to stay away longer, but the “weather media extremists” forced him home early. But the rest of us were content. Theodore drank his daddy juice, Matt took his inner hipster for a spin around …
A Week on the Wagon: Summer’s End
OK, I kid. Summer actually never ends around here for the boys of DadWagon. We’ll be kicking back Bacardi Breezers and shagging cocktail waitresses well into February. But we know that many of you are the more conventional types, for whom the end of summer means the end of vacation, the beginning of the school …