The thing with these children is that they remember everything. They get this from their mother, who can remember the look I had on my face three years ago when I asked if that’s what we’re having for dinner. This, by the way, takes all the fun out of arguing with the woman. So we …
I’m sitting in an airport restaurant near three men, three boisterous men drinking at 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday. The oldest, who appears to be about thirty-five and dressed like he’s twenty, is instructing the others on the tragedy of fatherhood. “My advice,” he says, “is not to have kids. Or if you have them, …
We are potty training the imp. Our method has always been to let the child run about naked from the waist down, so that when the need hits there is an immediate awareness of no diaper. This means lately I’ve been greeted when I get home by a chubby little monkey in a sweatshirt and …
It appears that Republican control of the Senate now turns on Conrad Burns in Montana, and George Allen in Virginia. I have an image of a desperate Snow White, perhaps not so snowy white any more, pinning her hopes for rescue on Sleepy and Dopey. In the House, meanwhile, a host of feckless rulers was …
