Death and the Dinosaurs

July 22nd, 2010 by Nathan | No Comments

The problem with knowledge and children is that a little bit of knowledge leads to more questions, and soon you are working your way down the ever-dimmer hallways of understanding that inevitably lead to the one thing we don’t want our 4-year-old to know: that we and everyone she will ever know and love will [...]


A death in the blogging community

June 2nd, 2010 by Nathan | 8 Comments

One thing about blogging–and particularly blogging about something as personal and unpredictable as parenting–is that you do feel affinities for wide circles of people you’ve never met. One such person is John Cave Osborne, who blogs about his triplets and more out of Tennessee. Through him comes word of the death of the son of [...]


More Better Death Writing

April 28th, 2010 by Nathan | 10 Comments

Even casual observers of DadWagon must know that I love me some kids-ponder-death writing. I do it myself as often as the cheerful bastards who co-blog here will allow.
This piece from Her Bad Mother is a lovely read. And at the same time depressing because really, none of us parents have good answers for our [...]


More Death Talk

February 26th, 2010 by Theodore | 2 Comments

Nathan’s somewhat mournful post from earlier today (Coors really bums me out), about work and snow and parenting, reminded me of one of my few straightforwardly sincere posts on death (most of my thoughts on slipping the mortal coil are outrageously funny).
As I wrote earlier, one of the teachers in JP’s preschool passed away and [...]


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