What Almost Made Me Cry Today

I Am Not Yet a Wuss, But I Will Be Soon

August 26th, 2010 by Matt | 3 Comments

Yesterday, the Internet was all a-flutter over the news that 25 percent of grown-ass men travel with stuffed animals. Maybe “all a-flutter” is overstating it, but one or two “news” “outlets” covered the Travelodge survey:
Travelodge said that 25 percent of men reported they take their teddy bear away with them when going away on business. [...]


JP’s Doppelganger

August 23rd, 2010 by Theodore | No Comments

JP’s away for the week with his mother, and my girlfriend and I also decided to leave town, as this might be our last solo vacation before the new baby comes and changes everything. I’m upstate in a little shack by a lake, and it’s raining, and the only thing to do is watch the [...]


What Almost Made Me Cry Today: A Milestone

August 23rd, 2010 by Matt | No Comments

It’s funny how extremely subtle changes in your kid grab your attention. For instance: Little kids cry all the time. Sometimes for good reason, sometimes for no discernible reason at all. But what’s in a cry?
Anyway, when I got Sasha up this morning, she was weepy, crying as I changed her diaper, saying “I sorry.” [...]


What Almost Made Me Cry Today: Bad Kids Edition

July 13th, 2010 by Christopher | 2 Comments

I have to say, this essay went through me like an arrow made of ice and tipped with curare. It might’ve been called “When Bad Children Happen to Good People,” and addresses that thing we all have in the backs of  our minds: What if I do everything right and still raise a horrible person?
We [...]


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