Thank you New York Times Idea Blog (if you go to the link, I suggest you ignore the blah blah blah about the resilience of television in the face of new media, because, really, who the hell cares?)
Author Archives: Theodore
Fathers: Public Enemy Number 1
This is a pretty fascinating one from Transparental, which is a parenting blog put together by, well, what is the vocabulary here? A woman, mother of two, is “transitioning” into a man, and is keeping a blog to document her experiences. (and for those of you out there, I am truly uncertain of the vocabulary; …
Put that phone down, punk!
I went out to dinner with JP, my father, and my father’s wife this past Friday. It was sweltering that night, so the streets were filled with people out on the town. Walking home from the restaurant I got a phone call from JP’s mother, asking to talk to him before he went to bed. …
The Joy of Caking
JP will shortly turn 4, which is a good thing—I’m not the sort of parent who thinks they grow up so fast. They don’t. Four years is a long time, I didn’t get to sleep for the first two of them, and last night at dinner, my son, my great love, mankind’s last and final …