We bought our daughter one of those little primary-colored push car toys for her first birthday. It gets great gas mileage and holds up amazingly well in crashes, of which there have been many so far.
The other day, she got herself caught in a traffic jam. The legs of our counter-height kitchen table and its [...]

Well, we did it. My wife and I made it to the one-year mark. (Oh, and so did Lucy.) The first two weeks seemed like [...]

I am convinced that all the child development books written by so-called “experts” are designed for the sole purpose of driving you insane.
Even though most [...]

I was recently given a review copy of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing.
The problem is, I’ve never done an official review of anything before.
I guess the first thing to determine is my unit of measurement. That seems to be the thing that really brands you and makes you popular, ensuring that more [...]

In a few weeks, my daughter Lucy will celebrate her first birthday. Last Thanksgiving, we had to skip the traditional two-hour drive home because my [...]

One of the best perks of being a parent is raiding your kids’ Halloween candy when they are asleep. Of course, my daughter is only [...]

Halloween is one of the greatest holidays. Like most holidays, it has its share of commercialism, but it doesn’t come with the obligations, guilt, and [...]

We went to the doctor the other day for my daughter Lucy’s nine-month checkup. It included a smorgasbord of shots.
And I got to hold her [...]

Summer is winding down, the kids are back in school, and the long, bleak, football hiatus is almost over. If you’re a fantasy football nut, [...]

Adultitis is a chronic condition that plunders laughter, burns people out, and turns them into zombie-like doo-doo heads. It causes stress — lots of it. [...]

Let me begin by saying I am not Ansel Adams. Most of what I know about photography came from an introductory class I took in [...]

Sometimes I long for the days B.L.
Before Lucy.
Lucy is my seven-month-old daughter and first child. As an entrepreneur, I mistakenly thought my life resembled a [...]