You gotta love the Internet. My three co-d‘s and I launched DadWagon in November with noble intentions: make earnest jokes, raise serious questions, commiserate about fatherhood in New York City and elsewhere. We hoped to get readers to drop by because they like the conversations we’re having here. And sure enough, we’ve been getting a good …
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Once again the weekend found us in Brooklyn, and I found myself asking the question that has no answer: why don’t we live there? Actually there is an answer. My wife works in northern New Jersey, and only a masochist would commute through Manhattan. But I won’t let that legitimate reason prevent me from grousing …
Something about the new year made DadWagon a little jumpy. We kicked it off by fretting about sidewalk electrocution, and moved quickly to worrying about the choices other parents make. We cursed, trainspotted and clusterfucked (strictly in the epidemiological sense), and we were only half-joking when we advocated beating children. Theodore, who lost a cherished …
If you look at the far left pink spot of this infographic from the San Jose Mercury News, you’ll see confirmation of what I had always suspected: I went to middle school in an Autism Cluster. Of course, this was in the benighted ’80s, when there was no autism, only retardation and hyperactivity. But still, …
