So I am traveling, once again, for work. But this time I took my 4-year-old daughter. Taking your kid on work travel is something that Matt has made a virtue of in the past, and since I am ostensibly on an environmental story, I thought I’d be Erin Brockovich for the first time and have …
Author Archives: Nathan
The Internet rules against me
Let me say from the outset that I know I should just pay the fricking ticket. But it was so much money–$115 for having my car at the hydrant in front of our house while I ran my kids inside. That I got such an extravagant ticket on the return from a Frugal Traveler getaway …
Was there ever any doubt?
Kudos to Alice Park over at Time.com for spreading news of this study showing that the children of lesbians may do better in life than the average kid. Now, you know that I have differed with my dear Sapphist friends about whether boys should be allowed to pee standing. But you should know that I …
Tapping That Sack
I mocked this last week on the Twitters, and Chris (@tessasdad) managed to turn it into something of a term of endearment, but here it is for all our readers: MSNBC has discovered a new plague endangering our children. It goes by the street names of Nut Tag, aka Sack Tapping, aka Roshambo. It is …