Despite the fact that I’ve input our phone numbers into the Do Not Call Registry five times, last night Powergirl and I received a call from a telemarketer at 10 p.m.
Yes, you read that right: A telemarketer called our home two hours before midnight.
Naturally, because the baby was fast asleep at that hour, I picked [...]

Leave it to L to find stuff I thought I had lost forever. The object of her eureka moment this afternoon: The only foul ball I’ve ever caught during a live Major League Baseball game (which, oddly enough, happened to be exactly ten years ago today, at the old Yankee Stadium, on July 6, 2000).
Some [...]

I’ve just returned home after two days of networking in the big city. Following a late night last night, a full day of meetings today and a long drive up the 101, I was so tired that I actually struggled up the stairs.
Still, one glimpse of my little baby snoozing away in her crib made [...]

A normal nap for L lasts about 30 minutes. Today, however, she slept for nearly 75. I’m certainly not complaining—there’s nothing on Earth like some unexpected free time. That said, I have to admit: I was at a bit of a loss for what to do with those 45 minutes I didn’t think I’d have.
So [...]

Never mind that I pitched the very same story to the very same section of the very same paper six months ago—this story by Douglas Quenqua in today’s Sunday Style section of The New York Times is a must-read for parents who insist on putting pictures of their kids up on Facebook.
The story, titled “Guardians [...]

Readers regularly ask me if the picture of the baby in the header on this Web site (for you reading the blog’s RSS feed, the picture at www.thedaddydispatch.com), is baby L.
The answer, folks, is a resounding no, or to put it more eloquently: never-under-any-circumstances-not-even-if you-paid-me-or-threatened-to-declaw-my-eunuch-cat would I publish a picture of my daughter in a [...]