Teaching Lefty to Be Blasé
2015-03-08 – Lefty is never blasé. He is sensitive, attentive, engrossed, and enthralled, even sometimes fearful, but never blasé. He is also only marginally educable. In almost 10 years, I’ve […]
Tag Archives: Family
After 25 Years She’s Still the One
2016-02-02 – Kit and I were married on Groundhog Day in 1991, 25 years ago today. We were married in the house that became our home by a judge from […]
Speaking of Death With Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA
2015-09-13 – Stephen Colbert crossed a new line in comedy on Thursday. Over the years, we’ve seen comedians cross lines about taboo speech, about race, about sex, about immigration, about […]
No, I’m Not Running for President
2015-08-16 – I am in Iowa today. No, I’m not running for President. I came to bring my son Cal to Grinnell College for his senior year. When he graduates […]
Lefty and the Sheep
2015-07-12 – My dog Lefty is an Australian Shepherd. I’ve heard people talk about sheep herding dogs (and Lefty in particular) as having an instinct for herding sheep. But we […]
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
2015-06-02 — When you lose an elderly parent, as I did yesterday, you don’t know how to feel. The mother you last talked to may have been gone a long […]
Eating in a Strange Place
2015-05-31 – My son Cal left yesterday for a summer internship at Axelle Editions in New York. This will be a great opportunity for him as a young artist to learn […]
No Trophies Just for Participating?
2015-05-03 – There’s an ecard floating around the Internet that goes like this: “I’m afraid of a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies […]
She’s the Handy-Person in the Family
2015-03-29 – My wife Kit wears the pants in the family. So do I, of course, I don’t want to get arrested (though I see that sans-culottes has taken on […]
I’m Jewish, She’s Not
2015-03-24 – Sunday’s post (Piety Porn) earned me a private request to write about interfaith marriage. That was because I mentioned that I am Jewish and my wife is not. […]
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