Daddy Dialectic

1. This summer, we moved back to San Francisco's Mission district after a year-long sojourn in suburban Palo Alto. Three weeks ago we we...

Here's a little video my friend Axel put together about our "Bees and Butterflies" group, which involved a group of almost 20 ...

This is the edited transcript of a May 7 talk I gave to the nurses of UC Berkeley Health Services on surviving compassion fatigue. It occurs...

1. I walk up to the book and pull it from the shelf. Moved by a strong intuition, I do something that I've never done before: I flip to...

The sidewalk in our neighborhood, unusual for the galaxy of Chicago pavement, ends a block and a half up the street. At the last house, acro...

It's Thursday and the news alert pops into my email: California Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage . I think, "I'll have to b...

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay politician "in the history of the planet," to quote Time magazine. He represented my neighbo...

Liko and Shelly are both ill and they both go to bed early. I tuck them in, do the dishes, pick up his room. Now what? It's only 8:45 an...

Scene: Dinner at Savor in Noe Valley. I'm eating humus; Liko is eating pasta. Me: Liko, do you want to go to the antiwar protest tomorro...

From today's New York Times : For the first time, women in their 20s who work full time in several American cities — New York, Chicago, ...

Reports the Washington Post : A just-published study of birds reports new insights into the evolution of altruistic behavior. It suggests th...

There are two hot new trends in my social circle: divorce and second children. Some couples are separating, others are reproducing, again. W...

The Spot is my zen master. He does it all while wrapped up like a monk in his sedan chair -- I mean stroller -- while being pushed around th...

For a little while now, I've been stopping by a local bakery every Friday morning to pick up a challah loaf. Most often I was served by ...

I am in the process of interviewing Bay Area families for a series of writing projects on stay-at-home fathers and non-traditional families,...

Our son Liko was born at St. Luke's hospital in San Francisco. We were supposed to go to Kaiser, but in the most harrowing sixty minutes...

For the first year of my son’s life I was the sole means of support for our family. I worked at an independent media organization that by th...

Whew -- summer vacation is over! Back to school! I'm not always so excited to return to the books and bells, but the end of summer vacat...

Linda Hirshman is gaining more publicity, this time in the progressive media: in The Progressive , Ruth Connif takes her ideas apart and do...

This afternoon for lunch (I'm working today) I stopped by a playground near San Francisco's City Hall. I walked right past a sign th...