Author: Backpacking Dad

So, here is the Final Chapter in my "Feeling Raw Because of Facebook" series. Is it a series? Does three make a series? It’s a trilogy, at least. Anyway, here, another guest post by ME so that I don’t have to write anything new.   She "friended" me out of the blue. I had never…

Continuing my "I don’t want to write anything new" week, here is another guest post from ME. I was 14. I was at a new school, in a new city, and my classmates had all been in middle school together before moving across the street to the high school. So, once again, I was starting…

Jeremy Adam Smith’s posts are always smart. But he’s written one today that just floors me. The moral, the obvious, but too often-submerged, necessary thought that parents ought always to have is this one: For me, for all of us responsible for nurturing life, nihilism is not an option Go. Read it.