“Where’s Vera!!?” Hazel cries out in mock wonder as Vera does her best to hide behind her tiny hands. Madness ensues. Two naked babies take turns chasing each other around the room with the biggest smiles the world’s ever seen. This game will go on until one of them runs into a wall or pees […]

This is quite possibly the most important election of our lifetimes. An election that will determine the future of our storied republic and which will charter the course of the next half-century. An election that will make clear our values and unite us around a shared vision. Oh, I’m talking about 2024. Look, 2020 is […]

Dear baby, You’re late. You were supposed to be here yesterday. 21 years ago, your mom and I stood outside on the concourse at a Seattle Mariners game and time stopped. We were out there talking about everything and nothing for the better part of 2 or 3 innings, but it felt like days. It […]

Holy moly am I tired. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I get tired a lot. Usually around 9-11pm. Then I sleep for 7-8 hours and it goes away. It’s always been a fleeting symptom. This is different. I still sleep for 7-8 hours, but instead of waking up feeling refreshed. I awake exhausted. I […]

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a landmark civil rights case protects LGBTQ people from discrimination in employment. Cheers all around! In what can only be deemed much-needed progress, statues glorifying segregationist Confederate Civil War anti-heroes were torn down around the country in the past week. Hip hip hooray! Look, I hate to be […]

Dear Brother, Supplies are dwindling. We’ve run out of MCT oil and our desert choices have been reduced to frozen Trader Joe’s Pecan Kringle and spoonfulls of maple syrup. I tried candying some nuts, but it turns out that I don’t entirely understand candy as a verb. There is no sign of open delivery windows […]

It’s not every day that I find myself sticking up for Facebook. To put it mildly, I’m not a fan. On balance, I think it’s making the world a worse place. I miss the good old days when you had to physically interact with people to hear their opinions. You know, the simpler times when […]

About a year ago, I took the leap and canceled my Facebook account. This wasn’t as difficult a task for me as I suppose it may have been for more ardent users of the platform (I’m looking at you Mom!), although it still felt like a seismic shift in the way I would connect to […]

Rightfully, we have undertaken an immense societal effort to achieve, or, more realistically, to approach an egalitarian society where women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities. While the pursuit of equal outcomes for men and women is laudable, the scope of our efforts to date has had an insufficient effect in moving the […]