Our recent vacation was only tangentially related to a deadline I had for submitting a draft chapter for my dissertation. The real reason for our sudden surfeit of leisure time was that Emily quit her law firm job. I talk a lot about myself here, slightly less about the kids, and only rarely about Emily,…
Author: Backpacking Dad
How Many Dads Does It Take To Screw-in a Lightbulb?
That might be the most important hyphen ever. And the answer is: “None. That’s what kids perched on top of a pile of books perched on top of a stepstool perched on top of a chair are for.” “Dad” and “daring” and “danger” and “dammit” all start with “duh”. So do “damp” and “daffodil”, but…
Back from Vacation and We Miss Grandma Already
Unlike most other parenting bloggers I’m not going to regale you with vacation stories (because regaling is for losers) or pepper you with pictures (because photos are for chumps). I would never do that. You will never see vacation recaps or photos on this blog. Don’t bother searching the archives; all you will find are…