This is another story from my brother. So, he calls me up the other day and I know I’m in for it when he starts out by saying, “I never used to understand how Dad would disappear into the john with a paper and just be there…but now I do.” Hard to say where these …
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Bad Dads We Love: on not discussing OBL
I was listening to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s remarks from the 9/11 site this morning on the radio, where he announced the official opening of the National September 11th Memorial. The baby was spraying the room with her sweet potatoes and JP was busily constructing something arcane from Star Wars Legos. This passage caught my attention, …
Don’t Fry Pork Chops on Passover
Okay, this has nothing to do with Passover, or parenting, except that I thought of it when I saw some photos my friend David put on Facebook of his seder, and he has a lovely new daughter, Georgina. He was seated at the table with his guests and they were all wearing little paper hats …
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Sportswriter Edition
From the sports pages of the Dallas Observer: In Game 2, Colby Lewis is scheduled to start after missing his last regular turn in the rotation because — I’m not making this up — his wife, Jenny, was giving birth in California. To the couple’s second child. Don’t have kids of my own but I …
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