Small town New Hampshire was a good place to grow up (for part of my youth). It seemed that every other family was a young couple with kids my age. I spent lots of time playing around the neighborhood and in my friends’ homes. It was the sort of neighborhood where, when it [...]
There’s no sense in arguing about it; it’s obvious, and even the experts agree it exists. If you have a sibling you’ve experienced it, whether to your benefit or not. If you’re a parent of more than one child, you’ve grappled with how not to show it. It looms in the back of [...]
Is normality defined by the person who proclaims it through the largest megaphone? Maybe what is normal is decided by committee, a committee I’ve not been invited to join. I think though that normal behavior is a popularity contest. The cool people, by default, are normal because most people want to be them. If [...]
Every few days I make a trip around the blogosphere to check on what other dads are saying about their lives and their experiences. Usually I find things that are mildly interesting to me but not particularly relevant to anything I can talk about. Today I read an article at Dadshouseblog.com that I [...]
