So Scientific American magazine has come out with a list of the ten most effective parenting practices. You can read a friend’s blog SFGate blog post about it here, or read the actual article here.
My personal reaction to the list was something along the lines of, “Yeah, duh.” I mean, most healthy parents hear [...]

As you readers know, my wife and I had a terrible experience on a recent United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Lihue, Kauai. In a nutshell, the plane had no changing tables and we were told, basically, to improvise. Infuriated by this heartless policy, I wrote a letter of complaint to United last week. [...]

The following letter is a completely serious complaint about our recent flights to and from Kauai, and I formally filed it with United Airlines earlier today. This is only the beginning of my campaign against the airline on this issue. Trust me.
To Whom It May Concern:
I am a travel writer, Mileage Plus member (No. xxxxxxxxxxx) [...]

Today’s Travel section of The New York Times (a client, by the way) boasted a long story by Matt Gross (a.k.a. “The Frugal Traveler”) about visiting San Francisco solo with his 13-month-old daughter.
Though I’m not a huge fan of Gross (he admits in the opening graf he can be “self-absorbed”), the story provided a handful [...]

This past weekend comprised three full days of family and extended family for L and the rest of us.
On Friday, Powergirl attended her best friend’s bachelorette party (and I dined with the bachelor) in San Mateo County, while my mother-in-law watched the baby for a while. On Saturday, the three of us (with mother-in-law in [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to my first night and morning away from L earlier this week: Out of nowhere, I got walloped with a bad case of separation anxiety and called an audible to change my plans.
I won’t bore you with the specifics, but suffice it to say that in anticipation of [...]