Attention all masochists! Please check out this post at Babble explaining why mothers must break the bad news about sex to their children. Here’s the setup: On a car trip a couple years ago, my six-year-old son, Eli, asked randomly, between bites of his granola bar, “How do babies get here?” I looked over at …
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Bad Things Happen To Very Good People
Rotten day at the office yesterday. I learned from one of my colleagues (and the New York Times) that my boss, Roger Hodge, was fired by Harper’s Magazine. Roger gave me my first and only real job in journalism. Gave me my only raise and promotion as a working adult. Assigned and ran two of …
The Tantrum: Should dads go to birthing class?
(This is the Tantrum, in which the four Dadwagon editors debate an important, or sometimes pointless, issue in parenthood.) Good ole Butterfly Mcqueen–certainly captured the whole deal about birth didn’t she (for those of you who don’t know the reference, McQueen is the actress best known for playing Prissy in Gone With The Wind, who …
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A Week on the Wagon
A Week on the Wagon. Such a phrase! Seems particularly close to my own life this week, as I’ve been sick since last weekend and haven’t been able to indulge in my normal pastimes, which along with binge drinking, include domestic violence, crocheting, and bestiality animal husbandry. As such, I’ve had more time (and sobriety) …