Asterisk Mode I was totally like this after my wife and I got engaged. “Can’t you see that I’m engaged?! I am getting soup and I am engaged!!!” And then after the wedding, “Can’t you see that I’m married?! I am eating soup and I am married!!!” And then after we found out we were [...]
Posts tagged fatherhood
Link: The myth of the "pre-baby body" | Offbeat Mama
Link: The myth of the “pre-baby body” | Offbeat Mama: I wholeheartedly approve of this message.
As a father, one of my jobs is to support and encourage my wife to believe this. The idea of ideal body-shape is bullshit. Health is one thing, but how yo…
Our first home movie
Say hello to our daughter. She hasn’t a name yet, but she’s already dear. I almost cried during the whole procedure. I had no idea how incredible and awesome it would be to see our child in such a way. Instead of it being an abstract concept, how it impacts our lives (mainly my wife’s), [...]
Father-Child Bonds in the Animal World, Special and Strange
Father-Child Bonds in the Animal World, Special and Strange: This explains why I’m putting on weight. And swinging around from trees. It also reminds me of Couvade syndrome, which is “sympathetic pregnancy” in human males.
I have a secret
I won’t publish this post for awhile, but I want to collect my thoughts. Update: This post was written at 7am April 11, but published May 22. The only addition was the linked sound file.
Comment Confessional
Sometimes I feel compelled to write book reviews on Amazon solely to offset the people who post vitriol-laden 1-star reviews. I can dig disagreement, but when your review resorts to name-calling, it’s not really doing anyone any good.
And maybe to a greater extent it bothers me because these are people reading books — so I have certain expectations of them as book-readers. Perhaps it’s just jarring to see obvious ignorance (e.g. name calling, ad hominem attacks, etc) from people who have both 1) read the book and 2) taken the time to write a review of the book.
But I content myself with the hope that the people I actually would care to be influenced by reviews are intelligent enough to see those 1 and 2 star reviews for the dregs they are. Kind of like ignoring YouTube comments.
