Remembering Caroline
Tonight is the night she shuddered out her last breath and left us holding the shell of a girl. I thought for a time it
On the confessional parent
Susan Stiffelman writes at ParentDish about the indignation some readers of mamapundit felt upon learning that, in the midst of writing about parenting, she was
Because I like books that begin with poems
I’ve begun reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane to the boys. It’s by Kate DiCamillo, author of Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of
On parenting with a broken heart
Leo has hydranencephaly. This is some of what his father has to say: “From the beginning he has asked me to put my desires to
Another reason not to get medical advice online
Several people in the office have come down with the pinkeye. I always thought it came from poopy hands, which makes me think less of
Render thy car seat unto…
Six year-old Isaac had a running argument with three year-old Isaiah for a few weeks, on the question of who owns Isaiah’s car seat. Isaac,
Civic religion
Seton Hall history professor William Connell offers an informative defense of Columbus Day: “The holiday marks the event, not the person. What Columbus gets criticized
Nerf war
A gymnasium strewn with upturned tables for barricades, a child-hearted husband and wife instigators of the fracas. Boys with single-shot pistols, automatics, rifles, rocket launchers,
Smart over art
Evert Cilliers on lousy, pretentious, self-celebratory modern film and fiction: “Urban Intellectual Fodder. Neither original nor path-breaking, this art is derivative hommage; postmodern commentary around
Tilling ground
If only busted-up soil can be planted, the flat-tilled earth bereft of rocks before it can yield life, then what of the heart, the hard-hided,
On the virtue of a good beating
Jonah Goldberg, on how the despicable Fred Phelps and his entourage might have been dealt with in an earlier, more “hands-on” era: “If this country
Two Anthonys
I’ve been thinking on the incongruity of sharing a name with the saint who went into the desert to wrestle demons and aloneness and thereby
