I have spent the better part of the morning planning an itinerary for an upcoming (work) trip to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. I’m taking the trip with Powergirl and L—our second trip to Hawaii in six months. Knowing the baby will be with us is complicating the process a bit.
The biggest challenge: Choosing accommodations [...]

This week Powergirl and I made a difficult decision regarding L’s crib: We finally decided to put the bumpers on.
On paper, opting for these cute little cushions (they have storks on them) doesn’t seem like a tough choice; most of the books tell you to consider it any time after the baby is big enough [...]

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 [...]

Powergirl and I are off with L early Monday morning on the baby’s first major vacation: ten days in Hawaii. While I am certainly not stoked about enduring heightened security measures at OAK on our way west, I’m actually looking forward to seeing how L does on the plane. Here are five other random thoughts [...]