Daddy Dialectic

The following is based on a series of comments I made recently over at Rebeldad : Stop the presses: Breadwinning moms are divorcing their st...

My high-school friend introduced me to her 5-year old son the other day. Apart from the fact that he stood exactly 180 degrees facing the op...

I am in the process of interviewing Bay Area families for a series of writing projects on non-traditional families, collected as the "2...

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

You probably already have a gut sense of what the social science buzzword ' social capital ' means. Warren Buffet has financial capi...

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...

the intro from rad dad 7 -- out this week note: i'll be tabling at the portland zine fest from aug 10 - 12. stop by! there will be a ...

I doubt many folks checking in on Daddy Dialectic bother to read the Wall Street Journal, but someone (my wife, who in fact needs to underst...

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 ...