Daddy Dialectic

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 ...

“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...

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

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...

      The other day I found myself exclaiming to my two daughters, sixteen and fourteen respectively, don’t have sex until you’re in yo...

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Yes, it's true, this blog has been recently neglected. Here's why: 1. I started a new job as Web Editor of the UC Berkeley Greater ...

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This is a post about not writing. It is not a post about writer's block. Enough has been written about that already. It is a post abou...

Seesaws, rocking horses, and merry-go-rounds can be lots of fun for children. But playground chess with your father-in-law is serious busine...

Hello readers, Ava here. I have asked Jeff to use his blogspace to insert some reflections about parenting in the post-industrial era. Whi...

Seven months after my daughter’s second birthday, she snapped. Not the regular toddler tantrum that had become a regular occurrence in our h...