Making My Debut on Esquire and Redbook in 36 Minutes Time

on August 26, 2015 at 11:30 am ×

Yesterday was a pretty bizarre day. In the span 36 minutes, I was published on Redbook and Esquire. Yeah, THAT Redbook and THAT Esquire. Biz. Arre.

You Can Take Your Participation Trophy And Shove It Into Your…

on August 19, 2015 at 1:50 pm ×

Ears. Shove it straight into your ears. What? Did you think I was going somewhere else with that? The Not-Its! “Participation Trophy” — their fine song from their fine album KidQuake! — is all yours for FREEEEEE right now as a clever and sensible reaction to Participation Trophy-Gate spurred on […]

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Michelin First Car Moment

on June 25, 2015 at 6:30 am ×

This post is about cars but it’s also about photos; those we have, those we don’t, and those we’ll see in our mind’s eye until the end of days. A photogenic memory isn’t something I could legitimately claim to have. I’d be found out the minute someone asked me to […]

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The Return of Mr. Headyguard

on June 23, 2015 at 1:31 pm ×

He blew in with the wind, very early on an otherwise unremarkable Sunday morning, and for nearly an hour he answered the phones of a doctor’s office, natural history-ish museum, King Tut’s residence in ancient Egypt, and ‘The Crumblers’ factory where they, um, crumble stuff. The voice of the famously […]

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I Believe That We Will Win But I Am Losing

on June 18, 2015 at 2:56 pm ×

Not exactly a feminist dad dream sequence but the way I pictured it in the weeks and months leading up to the 2015 World Cup in Canada, there would be a #15 on my back, the name Rapinoe splayed out from shoulder to shoulder, and a #2, #10, #11, #17 […]

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What I Hope To Be

on June 18, 2015 at 10:21 am ×

We felt it before day one, on back to school night…or maybe it was meet the teacher night…either way: the Mouse’s 2nd grade teacher was destined to be the kind of educator name-dropped decades later, when Mouse is reflecting back on what first prompted her to [insert great accomplishment verb […]

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The Problem With Palm Oil and Other Life Lessons From An 8-Year-Old

on June 10, 2015 at 11:26 am ×

Sumatran orangutans. And tigers. Also, elephants. All of those majestic creatures, and more I imagine (I dunno, I’m still figuring all of this shit out), are losing acreage of their habitats daily thanks to deforestation, thanks largely to the pounding drumbeat of demand for palm oil. The forests are being […]

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When There Was A Baby In My Arms — Remembering My First Father’s Days

on June 9, 2015 at 9:32 am ×

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 […]

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