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I Will Be Alone But Not Alone Read

A week before their trip to Korea, my wife is stressed and the baby is sleeping poorly. Falling asleep after midnight. Waking at 3 in the morning and wanting to play. Holding her arms and legs and saying she is hurt, apa. It is almost the word for father, appa. It sounds [...]

By |2013-02-27T13:37:05-08:00February 27th, 2013|Blog|0 Comments

Fear in America

And then someone goes and shoots up an elementary school, and the details that come out are more and more horrific. Suddenly, trying to write about your own small fears seems misplaced. Public fear, collective fear, dominates the news. It dominates Twitter. It dominates parenting. Cathreen is taking our daughter [...]

By |2013-01-02T13:41:26-08:00January 2nd, 2013|Blog|0 Comments

The Nature of Time and Babies

We are just beginning to find out how when your baby gets sick, you get sick. Before, this was always a metaphor. Now it is a cycle of fever and sore throats and utter exhaustion. One that will go on for years and years. Somehow, babies do not become adults [...]

By |2012-06-26T11:48:11-07:00June 26th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

In the Mouth

I go to New York for a reading and leave my wife and the baby at home for the third time in Grace’s 10 months of life. When I get back, my baby who is afraid of other babies touching her has kissed a boy. Her first kiss. My wife [...]

By |2012-06-12T18:31:28-07:00June 12th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time, my column was about relationships. It was sexy, or at least sexier. It went places, saw people, attended events. Now—I have faced the fact—it is about a baby. It is about a 10-month-old named Grace who doesn’t sleep well, most of the time, who is pretty in pink [...]

By |2012-06-05T10:55:14-07:00June 5th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments

Say Bye-Bye to Daddy

I have been trying to teach my daughter to wave. I say goodbye, wave, step out of the room; I step back in, say hello, wave. This is because a friend’s baby kept waving at me and I got jealous. I think Grace doesn’t wave because we never leave her. [...]

By |2012-05-01T07:36:25-07:00May 1st, 2012|Blog|0 Comments
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