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I Was a Two-Two
Did anyone else read the Baby-Sitters Club Little Sister books? Remember Karen the “Two Two”? I was a two-two too, though in this piece for the Good Men Project I refer to myself as a fifty-fifty kid....
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Happy Friday. You’re Welcome.
And just so there is no confusion… this is obviously, most definitely NOT my family. There will be no grandbabies for quite some time. Promise. Related Post: New York legalizes gay marriage and I...
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Who Needs Santa?
Merry merry and all of that. I have returned from a snowless, but otherwise joyful, Christmas in Massachusetts. All traditions were observed with the proper decorum. These included, but were not...
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Tigers and Grandparents
My godfather sends me stacks of post cards that he collects from gallery openings and art fairs. In college, they covered the wall above my extra-long twin, but now they sit in piles on my bookcase and...
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Platinum
Big thanks to the provider of this boa, which has left a pink and fluffy trail around Chicago On Saturday, I celebrated what my roommate described as my platinum birthday. 24 on 2/4. These are the...
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MA Reconsiders Custody Bias
I have tangled with the Men’s Rights movement before, usually in the comments section of my Good Men Project articles. The most frustrating thing about that crew, besides their vitriolic hate speech...
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Room to Room
Fire safety sticker On Monday, I said goodbye to my childhood home. It will be several more weeks before my family vacates the house, but due to my insistence on living a thousand miles away, my...
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Family Matters
My piece for Role/Reboot today was inspired by a bunch of things. You’ll see references to Toni Morrison (thanks Alex!), kudos aimed at a documentary called Uña y Carne, and some spectacularly dumb...
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5 Steps
Step 1: Eat (Note the red tray in the middle, that’s “strawberry pretzel salad”) Step 2: Eat pie (Note that this is 1/3 of the pie assortment) Step 3: Digest. Get comfortable. Step 4: Tell family...
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The “Idiot Dad” Trope
It’s not new, the Idiot Dad TV trope. Remember Tim Allen in Home Improvement? Lately, I feel like we’re making leaps and bounds forward on the portrayal of fatherhood on screen (see Google ads and Up...
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Home for the holiday is a little different this year
For Role/Reboot this week, I wrote about a little bit of a lot of things. A little bit of Christmas blues, a little bit of holiday traditions, a little bit of family drama. Last Christmas my brother...
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