You know how some people walk for AIDS or breast cancer or civil rights or some important shit? Well, in Le Mars, Iowa, last Saturday, there was a call out for dads to walk for… dads. Yes, that’s right, according to the Le Mars Daily Sentinel: The walk is being put on by the Lifetime …
Author Archives: Matt
Score One (Sort of) for Slovak Dads
The other day, I was sitting in a bar in Nové Zamky, Slovakia, when an interesting ad came on the TV. The scene: Dad’s at home with his two daughters, who’ve gotten into Mom’s make-up kit and transformed their lily-white dresses into the kind of hideous rainbow garb you see on old Haight Street hippies. …
Life in Sideways-Time
So, last night Jean informed me she was pregnant again—and that she was leaving me for someone else, and she suggested, although we both know the truth, that Sasha was this other guy’s. The strange thing, though, was that the other guy was also me, my doppelganger, and that Jean and I (that is, the …
Our Little Milestones
Reading Chris’s post about the miniature Dadaist living in his home reminded me that we’ve been running this here blog long enough (five whole months!) that he’s now experiencing with his kid things I did with mine a little while earlier. How time flies! All I can tell you, Chris, is to enjoy that melty …