Last night's Yule rite was pretty awesome. Despite chasing kids around, running a lot of video cameras, and generally being exhausted at the end of the day, there were some serious highlights.

1. The live-stream when phenomenally. By the time we'd finished, it looks like over 500 people had viewed the stream (we'll know more when the analytics arrive ( Read more... )

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Over the last several months, I've been doing what most people do when they have kids: obsessing a little bit over whether or not I'm "doing it right," realizing it doesn't matter, and then obsessing a bit again ( Read more... )

I'm tired of "A is for Apple" and similar things. So here's a better, less common alphabet that I'll be reciting to my kids ( Read more... )

Having just had twins (a boy and a girl, as most of my readers know), I got to thinking about the ways the world is going to be different for them, and the sorts of things that will be radically different for them than they were for me. And this is what I came up with:

1) They will never understand the "white noise" signal on a TV thanks to High ( Read more... )

It's hard to describe, but this is pretty damn close: ( By the Power of Baby: see the comic! )

Things I have learned, having a pregnant wife:

1) It is so rarely about you, or your family. ( Read more... )

At Summerland last weekend, I had the privilege of having two friends put me through a rite of passage that was, in many ways, just kinda perfect ( Read more... )

I guess I don't know what I really expected: to get to be the person who got to tell people the news that was mine to tell? To believe that maybe I'd get to tell people something cool one-on-one when it was quiet and intimate and joyful for me and for them? To maybe (just maybe) not have to pick and choose who got to know what at what time, but to ( Read more... )