June 20th, 2011 by Theodore | No Comments
In observance of the solemn occasion that is Father’s Day, the famed DadWagon interview turns its eye to Donovan Hohn, features editor at GQ and author of Moby-Duck, a book whose subtitle tells you much of what you need to know about it: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of [...]
January 27th, 2011 by Theodore | 9 Comments
So, as promised, I am going to deliver the shocking report on Israeli parenting…actually, I’m not. I had dinner with an Israeli family–mom, dad, and two-year-old boy–but they were all American-born, American-speaking, and they lived in an ultra-orthodox neighborhood that was almost entirely made up of Americans who come to Israel for a few years [...]
January 6th, 2011 by Theodore | 3 Comments
Some months back I wrote a post about how the frenzied reaction to Jonathan Franzen’s book, Freedom, had been interpreted by some as sexist. I felt there was some merit to the notion that Franzen’s work is interpreted as serious literature because he is a man, and a comparable novel by a female writer would [...]
December 16th, 2010 by Matt | 3 Comments
Motherlode, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dadwagon International, points us to 22 Words, a clever little blog that recently posed the following “pointed” parenting-related questions: Would you want to be your child? If not, how much of the reason why is you? And so, in the interest of following up in Internet fads, we ‘wagoneers [...]