I’ve discussed this with a couple of moms this month and they agree: in some ways being a single parent is actually easier than dual parenting. For instance, any decision I make is final. There are no discussions with a spouse or overturned decisions and there are no sneaky appeals. I don’t have to compromise. [...]

Daughter: Can I get a monkey? Me: No. Daughter: Why not? Me: Monkeys are wild animals. Daughter: But I could give them a banana and they’d come to me. Me: But they’re still wild. Daughter: Are there tame monkeys? Me: I don’t think so. Daughter: I wish the president would start a company that trained [...]

After school on Thursday I tossed The Boy a hunk of cheese from the kitchen for a snack. At least, that’s what I’d intended to do. In hindsight, this was a poor judgment call. What I actually did was lob a cheesy grenade-like projectile of doom at him. He missed. It hit him squarely in [...]

Virgin marketing stupidly used some photos of a teenage girl from Flickr without getting model releases first and is now being sued. But, that aside, the interesting bit in this story is that her family is suing for libel because the ad—with the tagline “Free text virgin to virgin”—damaged their daughter’s reputation. Her 27 year [...]

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As I hinted at earlier, I’m on my own this month. The Lovely and Talented Wife (LATW) is on day 12 of a 26 day world tour with stops in Seattle, Calgary, Denver, and other exotic locales. She’s in beautiful Calgary today. OK, so maybe it’s not exactly a world tour. But they are driving [...]

Son: …and I’ll be a Jedi Knight! Me: Cool! What about me? Son: Uh. You can be Larry. But, as it should be I guess this is.

“It’s true that men are far more likely than women to be sexual predators. But our society, while declining to profile by race or nationality when it comes to crime and terrorism, has become nonchalant about profiling men. Child advocates are advising parents never to hire male babysitters. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female [...]