“Music has charms to soothe the savage breast,” wrote William Congreve, but he never heard me play the guitar. It took me ten minutes to knock the dust off of my wife’s old acoustic last week, another five to tune it, and when I finally started in, my rendition of Volver may have ranked among the …
Author Archives: Nathan
OMG It’s a Fucking Wolf
Ah, look at that sweet little baby starting to… Oh, shit, is that a wolf??!! Jesus W. Christ, people, get your child away from that wolf! What is this, Sarah Palin’s house?! That was my reaction, anyhow, to the video that had (wolf) dog lovers cooing about how this beast is soothing the child. The …
The Best and Worst Parts of My Day
We have a not-bad bedtime ritual for the kids that my wife started up a few months ago: just before we leave the room, we do a brief recap of the best and worst thing that happened to everyone that day. It has occasioned a lot of learning about our kids. About the four-year-old, we’ve …
For Parents Who Want to Get Punched
Ah, the lovely product offerings that make their way into our inbox. This week: SATees, which puts high-protein vocabulary words on onesies. These may work for you. You may want to buy one. Babble seemed to like the idea. But maybe it’s because I taught SAT courses for many years, or because I have a …