DADWAGON

After almost three weeks on the road—Austria, Morocco, Spain, you know, the usual—I’ve just returned to New York and my much-missed family. This morning, as I walked into Sasha’s room to get her up, I mentally prepared to be ignored. After all, while I was gone, she’d apparently taken to using the word “Daddy” to [...]

Sasha has entered that wonderful phase where she’s learning new words at an impressive rate. Over the weekend, she started saying “Please!” and accompanying the word with the ASL sign as well. She knows where her head, eyes, nose, mouth, feet and belly are—in both English and Chinese. She can tell apples from oranges, most [...]

I’ve just reread Warren’s post about his racist preschooler, and it brings a couple things to mind. First: what the fuck, Warren? I’ve never met you, but you are clearly ignoring the first rule of guest-blogging: do not write better than the regular bloggers. Seriously, it’s the same reason women don’t wear white to someone [...]

[DISCLAIMER: This is a post about offensive words. If you are easily offended, then fuck you. Just kidding. Seriously, if you're easily offended – like, if you thought John Mayer was wrong for using the n-word while making his point that he has not earned the right to say the n-word – then you might [...]