So, you love your hubby but you’ve never really liked his fashion sense (or as my wife gently asked me yesterday “do you think you actually have taste?”) - I sense you may not be alone.

Putting aside the most important election of our collective lifetimes, the fact that our economy is in shambles, winter is fast approaching here in New England, and Tom Brady is out for the season, I would like to lighten things up here and help you cool-ify your guy.

Okay, where do we start? Read the rest of this entry »

As the father of a four-going-on-twenty-four year-old girl, I am (rightfully) nervous about the fast-approaching day when she tells me that she’s going on a real date with a real boy. In fact, we are already discussing how boys and girls are “different.”

Oh boy.

“Luca has a penis, but I don’t.”

The blood slowly seeps out of my face. Fainting… Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, I’ll come out and say it: are you mothers really the only ones who can run a household, manage a family, and keep it all together?

Are we men that inept, so unnecessary at home that not a word has been mentioned about the time that Obama has to spend at home with his young daughters and all the freakin’ press in the word focuses on Palin and her five offspring?

So be warned: I am offended. Read the rest of this entry »

I brought our daughter to the local playground yesterday, and with beautiful weather it was the perfect antidote to the end of a very hectic summer.

As we walked in the gate, three other couples with younger children were entering as well, and then I noticed that the three men were veering off into the abutting field, one of them with a football tucked under his arm.

And then, almost metaphorically, one of the three took off sprinting into the field… Read the rest of this entry »