Last night, in the 90 minutes or so between when the nanny leaves and Jean comes home, I was playing with Sasha. That is, I was lying near-catatonic on the couch watching TV while Sasha ran around destroying things (she loves to tear apart New York Magazine, more than any other publication, for some reason). …
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Bad Dads We Love: Tory Edition
Now, I’m not one to necessarily condone leaving your wife of 16 years and your three kids for another woman, but on some level I approve of the mini-scandal echoing out of England (via Cambridge, Mass.): Niall Ferguson, a Harvard professor, hedge-funder, and TV presenter with, as the Daily Mail puts it, “high-level links to …
When I Was Your Age, We Only Had Two Buttons!
Over at Kotaku.com, Stephen Totilo has identified an awesome new trend in video games — fatherhood: Being a dad, however, is becoming nearly as popular in video games as health bars and shotguns and, to my playing sensibilities, nearly as successful. I believe we are now experiencing a period of video game history that high …
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The Accidental Convent
Last weekend, at the excellent birthday party of a certain 4-year-old, my 14-month-old daughter, Sasha, had a blast. She scribbled with purple Magic Markers, drizzled glue on things, and sucked with glee on a juice box. She was a dynamo. But a comment from one of the fathers there surprised me: Apparently, according to him, …