I spotted him in the diaper aisle today at Target: Another dad, a man on a mission for a bevy of this-is-new-to-me baby stuff.
I knew dude was a new father immediately. Perhaps it was his expression—somewhere between overwhelmed, irritated and determined not to let the baby section make him lose his cool. It also could [...]

One of the benefits of L’s new schedule is that she’s sleeping more each night—usually anywhere between 8 to 12 consecutive hours.
One of the drawbacks: she is taking fewer naps.
Today, for instance, the kid woke up at 9 a.m. and went to bed around 9 p.m. She took one 45-minute nap—that’s it. Yesterday, after sleeping [...]

Movie fans likely remember the 2006 cult classic film, “Snakes on a Plane.” As the title suggests, the protagonists (my former “E.R.” heartthrob Julianna Margulies among them) wind up on a plane infested with snakes.
During our recent vacation to Hawaii on Alaska Airlines, I feel like we could have been extras on the set of [...]

So we got back from Hawaii on Wednesday (more on the trip later this week). And we drove straight from the Oakland airport to Berkeley, where I dropped off Powergirl for a four-day conference she was chairing.
With simple math you can deduce that this schedule left me as a single-parent for the better part of [...]

Zach Galifianakis, the hairy dude in “The Hangover,” had nothing on me this afternoon, as I somehow managed to (avoid stealing Mike Tyson’s tiger and) do most of my holiday shopping with L on my chest in a Baby Bjorn.
It was the first official time I’ve used the Bjorn with L facing outward. To my [...]

As grown humans, we take for granted how challenging it is to keep our heads up. We’ve had years of practice using our necks—decades to strengthen those muscles and make sure they do their job.
L, of course, doesn’t have that luxury; at this point, any strides in the neck muscle department are fairly big deals.
Naturally, [...]

Eager, thirty-something stay-at-home dad ISO fabric contraption that enables him to lug around baby daughter and, at the same time, keep hands free so he can do things like wash dishes, fold laundry, grill tri-tip or just sit at computer and type. Millions of parents on the subcontinent of India have used sling things [...]