Author: Backpacking Dad

The four tween girls blocking the theater door, giggling, and dancing over the threshold in some weird game that only makes sense to tween girls should have been my omen: I had made the choice that was bound to make me the most uncomfortable. Earlier in the day I had announced my boredom with Holocaust…

This is the label from a package of bowls we just bought at Target. They seem to be fine bowls. Nice picture of a kid there on the right. There are many things written on the back of this label, among them: “Fun design lets your child eat from a fish bowl.” “Great for mom…

These are notes I’ve jotted down and meant to go back to but I have little intention of doing so. And in some cases I don’t even remember why I was making the notes to begin with. This is what a writer’s/writers’ block purge looks like. ********************************************************************************** Fairies Green Fairy: adolescent, drunken-ness. Perpetual childhood (Tinkerbell,…