I sometimes think my family should keep an apartment in L.A. Nothing fancy. I’m not talking Los Feliz or Santa Monica. I’d settle for Culver City. It’s not that we’re jetsetters, not exactly although we’re inching closer to that kind of ridiculous status with what we have planned for the […]
Another week, another “dad” stepping on mom’s pregnant toes. So there’s this New England guy, Aaron Gouveia of “The Daddy Files,” who seems to “think” it’s a man’s job to actively participate in the decision-making usually reserved for a pregnant woman, decisions like naming the baby, circumcising the baby, breastfeeding […]
[Big thanks to The Huffington Post for running this piece and for the sweet shout out from A Mighty Girl.] First it’s this… “Oh man, you’re having a girl? Dude, you’re in trouble!” And then it’s all of this… “Oh, wait until they are crawling!” “Oh, wait until they are […]
No. Don’t even think it. This is absolutely not the start of a daily “Here’s what I packed my kids for lunch at school today” series of cheery overachieving posts. I’m not nearly that committed…or creative. And certainly not that cheery. As my high school teachers, every single one of them, […]
I don’t exactly do crafts. Blame my mom. There isn’t much in this world that gives me the twitches something awful quite like the sight of jar of glitter gone askew on a carpeted floor or paper shavings distributed evenly everywhere. I am far from the Mike Adamick-type. That dude […]
I’m the type of guy who’ll wake up at 7am on a idyllic Sunday morning and lie in bed for a few minutes thinking about the ingredient potential in his kitchen, specifically the 2 sticks of unsalted butter and 1/4 cup of heavy cream that remain in his fridge, ghosts […]
World Breastfeeding Week may, technically speaking, have come to a close a couple of days ago but it’s not like babies aren’t still latching on and, I reckon, despite advancements in human brain capabilities, nursing moms are still being shown the door to the restroom. Fuck that. I was moved […]
“Caroline” has long been one of my favorite Brandi Carlile tunes, even before I knew that it was a love song to a niece that Brandi was missing while out on the road bringing her roots-rock music to the people. And even before I knew that male voice and piano […]
