Snow Daze

Is there anyone (besides drivers of bus and municipal plow alike) who doesn’t like a snow day or at least a delay on account of the white stuff? All the kids and adults I like live for the moment where their school’s name flashes across the bottom of the television...

Been Served

Over the Thanksgiving break, my in-laws invaded. Since my niece and nephew had never been to New Mexico before, the eight of us raced around the state, climbing into the ceremonial caves at Bandelier and hiking among the moonlike landscape of Tent Rocks National...

Flying Solo

My wife rarely travels away from home without the children and now I understand why. She recently flew to California for a week to visit her sisters and here’s a transcript of the first 16 hours under my watch: 5:30 pm: I let Poppy and London decide where to pick up...

Conversion Van

I felt surprisingly fine about driving around with my daughter Poppy’s old Power Wheels Barbie Beach Ranger Jeep in the back of my minivan. After all, my wife Lala and I were doing some creative cross-gender parenting in an environmentally friendly way (or so I told...

Cell Out

My father and I recently spent a week together traveling back East to see old friends in old neighborhoods. One morning we were sitting across from each other at a table adjacent to our free hotel breakfast buffet under a giant screen television blasting CNN. The rain...