Vacation: The Return, the Malaise

As some few of you may have noticed, I have been absent from the site for about a week, during which time I traveled to Minnesota, where my brother lives with his wife and two daughters. We didn’t do much during that week other than relax, at their swimming club, at a lake outside of …

Israeli Defense Forces: The T-shirt Saga

I’ve written a little bit about how a fair percentage of the teachers at JP’s pre-K are observant Muslims. It’s not something I think about on a regular basis, but it came up again this morning. JP has entered a strongly independent phase of late. He insists on washing his own hair in the bathtub, …

DadWagon Q&A: Donovan Hohn, author of Moby-Duck

In observance of the solemn occasion that is Father’s Day, the famed DadWagon interview turns its eye to Donovan Hohn, features editor at GQ and author of Moby-Duck, a book whose subtitle tells you much of what you need to know about it: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of …