We are a traveling family, a map-loving family. more…

This has been a bit of a crazy week, with lost lunch boxes and late nights, so here, finally, is the update for the Chinese New Year post from earlier in the week.  more…

Freelancing can be a challenging way to make a living, but at least I never have to wear a tie.

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Sometimes these lunch posts send me into deep reveries about parenting or design or something. But today is just a haunted toilet. Seven-year-olds are into ghosts. And toilets are funny.

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As much as I love my son, I feel great shame that he fails to hate Jar Jar Binks.

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One of the most wonderful phrases in the world, to a kid, is “snow day.” more…

On his third day of life, our little guy, a month early and ramen-noodle-yellow with jaundice, was coccooned in a sling and carried on the subway to the doctor.

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We haven’t heard from Frankenstein’s monster for a long while. Today he returns…and something’s happened.

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Ohhhhh, man, I’m stiff this morning. Gotta do some yoga.

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