Daddy Dialectic

At some point, I have to talk about Proust. I feel a deep sense of connection with the narrating character, so deep that I wonder if I can r...

I'll be reading my short story “Same Street Twice” this Friday, June 29th, 7:30 PM at Pegasus Books, 2439 Shattuck Avenue, in Berkeley (...

Spot has more female admirers at 5½ months than I’ve racked up in a lifetime. The curious thing about it is that most of them are over 65. S...

And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother Through the parables Of sun ...

A few weeks ago my wife and I had the crazy idea to schlepp Spot to Lower Manhattan for a good friend's wedding. Spot was a good sport a...

Last year's Father's Day post, here reproduced in it's entirety. Scenes from playgroup, Karen's house: "No!" cried...

Here's an interesting essay by Penelope Trunk entitled "Generation Y: Our American Dream." Trunk indulges in a little ahistor...

Three links. In all of them, you can see the old world standing side by side with the new: 1. "Workers inventing new types of career mo...

Recently I've been hearing a lot of comments from anti-feminists on how feminism has "failed" or from feminists about how men ...

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 ...

The Spot had no idea what was coming when he started rehearsing his routine for the future Olympic sport of synchronized water-disco on the ...

On a cool and rainy spring morning about one month ago, I saw my wife to the door after three months of maternity leave. I took a picture of...

by Chip A few months ago, in a post entitled "Kids vs. Religion," I argued that kids don't need religion. Then a few weeks a...

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,...

Stephanie Coontz is a professor of history at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and Director of Research and Public Educati...

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...

I just got back from the tenth anniversary conference of the Council on Contemporary Families, a network of family researchers that I recent...

Today's entry is all about me. I'll try to make it interesting and relevant to readers who are not-me. First: Beacon Press has offe...