It’s a common thing that parents say, but honestly it doesn’t seem like just yesterday. It’s far more like another lifetime ago. I now have girls zooming around the neighborhood on electric Razor scooters, working diligently with wires and circuit boards as they deconstruct old stereos, and wearing whatever comes […]
**An expanded version of this list is now running on The Huffington Post. Go there to check out names 18, 19, and 20!** Gone are the classics Tom, Dick, and Harry for boys, and so long to Desiree, Summer, and Brittttaniiii for girls. The first half of 2018 has been […]
Maybe you don’t know this. Maybe you should. Drop-side cribs, those bastions of convenience that allowed for easy delivery of sleeping infants to their firm mattresses without a step stool (for average-sized parents) or wrecking your back (for bigger folk, like me), have been banned. Outlawed. Recalled. You get the […]
I said in a comment on another blog today that we build the foundation, they build the building. It was an off-the-cuff remark in response to the fear of letting your children go. It sounds pretty, but it’s scary as hell to execute. This focus on foundation-laying is exactly the […]
The trailer for BABIES is impossibly cute. If you’re not smiling after a goat steals a sip from a baby’s bathtub or when that same baby attempts horizontal jumping jacks, you’re probably a heartless bastard. But can an adorable 2-minutes be extrapolated into a 80-minute film? Sorta. The low hanging […]
