family life

What’s in a Name?

My wife is in that magical time of life romantically described in demography journals as “childbearing age.” Now the male privilege is we are ready for creating a child, if you ask us, from age 11 to approximately 118. Though nature offsets this by making us suitable for childrearing only from ages 34 to 36. […]

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Amazonian Women

People often ask me: “Adam, what’s it like to be married to a charming, beautiful, and talented woman such as your wife?” I’ll normally just smile coyly with some playful remark—maybe “I’ll never tell” or some such thing—and then leave my in-laws family reunion. I don’t mean to be rude; I really just don’t know

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What Can Brown do for US?

Alternatively titled: How My Newborn’s Diarrhea Can Save America and Possibly Iran … Gasoline. Just the word triggers your anxiety. Since the start of the Iran War oil prices have doubled, capping off an already meteoric rise from inflation and the conflict in Ukraine. It’s gotten bad enough that even our trusty media has sprung

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The Marital Rinse Cycle

My wife and I had a very happy marriage until about last Thursday. I of course don’t mean those sickeningly-sweet Hallmark movie ideas of a “happy marriage,” where neither party has had even a bad hair day, let alone enough nighttime gas to blow the hair off a gerbil. I mean the real life “happy

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