Beyond Doing Half the Parenting Doing my fair share for my son means I have to start carrying my weight in other areas at home. Growing up as an Indian-American son, in a family-oriented cu...
Beyond the Tyranny of Dad Tweets Much of my presence on social media, especially on Twitter, is predicated on the foilbes of parenthood. “Dad Tweets” are a venerable staple of the medium, as f...
Malcolm Browne Dash Please meet Malcolm Browne Dash. He’s my son, born February 9th weighing in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces. The days (and yes, the nights ) over this last week...
The Family of Languages From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has a delightful family tree of Indo-European languages , though I was kinda miffed at the o...
Poor Jermajesty It seems that Jermajesty Jackson ‘s parents are splitting up . An unfortunate and surprising turn of events....
give thanks "The Holidays" are upon us! (I just love the navel-gazing presumption it takes to refer to two arbitrary holidays with a royal "The". But I...
RCB on polygyny RCB has written an illuminating essay on polygyny , it’s a terrific read. She had given me a briefer version of these thoughts this weekend, but seeing the br...
Today's my father's birthday. He Today’s my father’s birthday . He reads my blog pretty regularly, so Happy Birthday, Dad. He’s probably my most favorite male parent....
