As I sat at the desk paying bills, I could hear the sounds of spaceships zooming and planets blowing up. While I’m still not a huge fan of video games, I must admit that the guaranteed increment...

The older my daughter gets, the harder it is for me to see inside her head.   It’s a story I’ve seen written by many befuddled fathers about their daughters. But just because it’...

Like sex and money, cleanliness is one of those subjects people are curious about but don’t like to reveal too much personal information. (Would you really want to admit that you occasi...

There probably isn’t a week that goes by when my son doesn’t have some sort of scratch, bruise, blister, or other physical reminder that he is an active boy. I noticed last night that h...

Does your baby sleep through the night? Well done! Does your baby wake frequently? What were you thinking? Excuse my bitter tone, but this conversation, going on over at Motherlode, caught my eye, and...

My son recently had a social studies assignment to create a timeline of his life. Besides such noteworthy events as going to Disney and getting an Xbox, I noticed that he included the death of his ...

Despite being an only child raising an only child, I am fascinated by birth order. (Maybe I watched too much Brady Bunch during my formative years.) While a recent New York Times article entitle...

Here’s the story I promised yesterday at the end of my post on the 3-year-old who accidentally threw back the foul ball her dad had caught at a Phillies baseball game.   A teacher friend of m...

I came across this article called “Swearing Makes You Feel Less Pain“. I was initially intrigued: hey, maybe that could have helped during labor!   The author starts by saying this: That ...

When people see me together with Isla, they often say, “She looks just like you.” “Does she?” I think. “I could only dream of being so cute.” Really, I don’t...