DADWAGON

Yes—and, of course, no.
I’ll start with no. In school, I was, in all honesty, not really a geek. I was president of the school my senior year, captain of the soccer team, lead in the play, and while I wasn’t necessarily a sex-god, I did have a date to the prom, she was gorgeous, and [...]

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, he [...]

This is an eventful week! Monday was International Grover Appreciation Day, and Tuesday was almost as momentous: It was on February 16, 1978, that software developers Ward Christensen and Randy Suess invented the Internet. Okay, they weren’t exactly creating it from scratch, or even starting the World Wide Web—but it was the beginning of the [...]