Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Letter to my son, five years gone

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My friend Matt Mahady wrote this poem and sent it to me in 2010. Matt was born in 1972 and he died in the first week of 2016, of a heart att...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Help Relaunch Rad Dad for Father's Day!

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Hello Rad Dad Supporters!  Rad Dad is growing up! And I need your help to make it successful. Along with Hip Mama, Rad Dad is going to re...
Friday, December 14, 2012

I Want to Write About Violence

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I want to write about violence. I want to write about violence but I don’t want to say anything stupid. I don’t want to say violence is ba...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Patchwork Family: Rad Dad 23 -- order your copy now!

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Patchwork Family Reflections on divorce and the passing of time We understand the world by how we retrieve memories, re-or...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Atonement. In the Style of the Talmud

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MISHNAH . A MAN, ON ASSUMING THE LEGAL STATUS OF FATHER TO AN ORPHAN GIRL, IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO LOVE AND ADORE HER FROM THE ...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Summer Before Kindergarten. Loosely in the Style of Gertrude Stein

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Bus Stop This is the big time now, we must become adults now, he and I, less he than I for like him I have been for some time ...
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Thursday, July 05, 2012

Want it all? Try saying "thank you"

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“Having it all” has been trending for two weeks, ever since Anne-Marie Slaughter’s blockbuster essay “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” w...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

A Father's Thoughts One Year After Adopting his Daughter

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'The Island Pagoda' from Foochow and the River Min by John Thomson (1873) I knew of Fuzhou before our daughter was born...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012

On The 20th Anniversary of Riot Grrrl

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Then: It did not hit me like it did the women in the crew. For them, it was an (albeit lily- white) explosion. It was a profound s...
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