After our Saturday keynote, we were honored to name our Scholarship Fund after our friend, Oren Miller, who is fighting Stage IV lung cancer. For years, Oren has been instrumental in building a worldwide community … Read More
My two life metrics
I think about death often. Not in an obsessive way. More of a practical thought process. It’s not a topic I share with friends or family, so I’ve gotten quite adept at having that conversation … Read More
The sequences, loops, and logic of Life
Long before I was a parent, I was a computer programmer. In elementary school, one of the first programs I wrote was a simple animation loop of a stick figure doing jumping jacks. I didn’t … Read More
I want my kids to be too cool to be cool
“I wish that I could be like the cool kids, ’cause all the cool kids, they seem to fit in.” – Echosmith These are lyrics in a song by a band that I’m probably too old … Read More
They don’t know
I knew the type of neighborhood it would be when I read the address on my daughter’s birthday invitation. Even after a week of preparation, when I pulled up to drop her off at the … Read More
Object permanence
The “Mongoloid” card gets played despite ground rules and—across the table—Jenn and I meet glances. Finn is asleep in Jenn’s lap, thumb resolutely in mouth. In slumber, Finn’s almond eyes close along sinuous lines; the … Read More
Crepe paper, pink thumbs
You know crepe paper, right? In recent years, it has been replaced with a sort of plastic substitute that is stronger, more colorful, and, importantly, color-fast. It is vastly improved over the crap I used … Read More
Podcasting gives my family history a human voice
Once I found out about podcasting, I took to it pretty fast. My family has always been full of storytellers, and I obviously got the gene from my dad. More often than not, at any … Read More
The long goodbye
Several years ago, I was having a drink with an acquaintance, a man around my age. Given my work in the parenting space, topics of family and fatherhood never seem too far off. And here … Read More
Kid, if you’re gonna do it, do it f@#king right
As each day passes in my journey as a parent, and as my daughter continues her maturation, I know there are inevitabilities for which I must prepare. She will feel a parental decision is unjust. … Read More
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