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Better With Beer
Your kid(s) put on shows at home? Do you watch them? Enjoy? Avoid?
Reluctant Pop Surprised And Entertained By Orphan/Wild West/Swiss Drama
“Play” in playdate has taken on a new meaning. Get Girl Child together with a friend or two, they spin some flippy make-believe into a theatrical production, costumes and… read on »
January 8, 2010
The Opposite Of Nostalgia
What don't you miss from earlier stages of parenting?
These Things Passed, And I'm Damned Glad They Did...
Around our Girl Child, the big, bright here-and-now throws everything else into shadow. Either that, or I've got some kind of weird memory disease. But I am often struck by… read on »
January 4, 2010
See Daddy Run
Do you show off for your kid(s)?
Once In A While, Child Should Cheer For Parent
Apologies to Aesop, but slow and steady does not win. Rabbits dust tortoises. In a big citizens’ run like last month’s 8K in a suburb next to ours, rabbits win… read on »
December 24, 2009
The Place Just Right
Is fathering better than you dared to hope?
With Kid, Life’s A Bigger, Better Beach
People are surprised at how long Minerva and I waited before we became three. We were years and years deliberately childless, then had more years wanting and waiting, to the… read on »
November 17, 2009
Pater’s Plays
Oh My Papa by Eddie Fischer
International anthem for funny fathers, way over-sung, in number-one hit of 1954. Translated from original German, this is from a Swiss musical where dead dad was a circus clown. Sung by Krusty to father in “Like Father, Like Clown” episode of The Simpsons.
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The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Fatherhood adds immeasurably to the hurt of U.S. Army soldiers portrayed in this Iraq War masterpiece -- N-O-T definitely not for kids -- that deserved more than…
March 9, 2010 | Permanent Link
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