Parents are obnoxious. When confronted by the childless on any topic, and forced to try to explain their opinions, prejudices, and premises to an increasingly incredulous and smarmy audience, parents will sometimes drop a big nasty bomb on the conversation: You’ll understand when you have kids. This isn’t obnoxious because it’s a conversation-ender (although it…
Author: Backpacking Dad
The Brotherhood
We have a nod. When we pass each other pushing our Graco Travel Systems along the sidewalk we do a quick check: Hmm. Rolling the All-Grey model. Nice choice. Then we meet each other’s gaze, but we don’t hold it or anything; just a glance, and then a slight chin lift. If we’re particularly extroverted…
I’m Keeping the Notebooks.
It’s not that the entries in the Best Damn Blog Giveaway in the History of Blog Giveaways weren’t great. I just haven’t read them. (Of course I read them.) So, rather than go out and read them and then try to judge which ones are the best and then announce which ones are the best…