I confess. When I read to my child at night I sometimes try to skip ahead. She always catches me, but I persist, omitting adverbs (much too prevalent in children’s fiction) and omitting “he said, she saids.” I’m such an asshole. Here I am watching the Bachelor with my daughter [...]

There is so much brilliant analysis of the inauguration, I figure why add to the mix? Why dissect an already dissected frog? I’ll just write down what I did on this historic occasion. We got up at 6 a.m to watch the swearing in with Eleanor.“What’s African-American?” she asked.It was like playing [...]

I was actually happy and proud when my husband stumbled in at three in the morning. He had bruises and bad breath. It was like Andy B.C (Before Child, duh).“How was it?” I asked.“It was awesome.”He had gone, with three other dads, to see NOFX. The dads came to our house for [...]

“What is this show about?” my four-year-old asks. “Are they going to dance?”“In a way,” I say. “A mating dance. It’s a game. See, these girls compete to marry the boy. In each episode they have to impress him so they can win a rose. If you don’t win [...]

I am now a blogger for The Rumpus, an online magazine focused on culture with some politics (the subtitle is Books, Music, Movies, Poltics, Sex, Other- which kind of says it all).
On the Rumpus all of the blogs are themed. Rick Moody is doing a blog about independent music and Jerry Stahl is doing [...]

We had a little New Year’s bash at our place. Thought we’d make 10pm the new midnight, forgetting that our friends aren’t responsible. Nothing better than seeing kids asleep in my living room while their fathers are in the kitchen eating cupcakes and doing shots of Patron (Hey, Rachel Ross I heard your [...]