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 [...]
February 18th, 2010 by Nathan | 10 Comments
A very strange thing started happening once we sent Dalia to preschool for the first time last fall: she made friends. With the cool kids. This is somewhat unprecedented. My family hasn’t had a serious brush with coolness since some long-ago relative was (allegedly) something of a mob lawyer in 1930′s Chicago. And even then, [...]
February 15th, 2010 by Theodore | 4 Comments
Let me start by saying that while intend to write this post almost entirely in a serious tone, largely because the subject matter that inspired it is just that — serious. Last week I learned that one of JP’s preschool teachers — a young, smart, caring person who JP was wild about — died. The [...]
January 4th, 2010 by Theodore | 7 Comments
I am not going to get into the tear-jerker element of this very fine “Modern Love” piece by Victoria Rosner in this Sunday’s Times, which describes the death of her ex-husband and the impact it had one her toddler (One example: “Now 3, Judah still doesn’t believe in forever and keeps trying to find a [...]
