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DO WE ALL HATE PARENTING?

Probably not. But we totally do have rough moments that often wipe away the most recent perfect moment in a heart beat. Definitely a topic worth talking about. And writing about. It was Jennifer Senior’s New York Magazine article that started it all. Shout out to Jason, Paul, and Jennifer who along with me had [...]

OLD SOULS

The other day I saw Taylor Momsen on East 67th Street in Manhattan. She was with two rocker looking dudes who were probably in her band. She had on garters and stockings, a pair of eight foot heels and was smoking. She’s 16. My first instinct was “where are her parents?” I would like to [...]

INSPIRING DAD – LESSONS FROM THE PAST

I was re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I had to pause to take a deep breath a time or two. Not because his letter was a tear jerker – it’s not. It’s truth spoken to power and is not at all sentimental. The ideas from his letter that [...]