Monthly Archives: February 2011

Yet More Confessions of a Fallible Father

By Brian | Published: February 22, 2011

My second Fathering from the Hip column, Confessions of a Fallible Father, posted yesterday. From the piece: The heart and the head. In parenting dilemmas these desires are often at odds, which is why navigating the many daily decisions of childrearing is so difficult and nerve wracking. A challenge I face even as I write [...]

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Introducing My New SAHD Column

By Brian | Published: February 8, 2011

Yesterday my column Fathering from the Hip debuted on Prospect Heights Patch with A Brief History of Drinking with My Baby, a piece about bringing F out to bars. (Because what typifies the stay-at-home dad experience better than afternoons in a pub with baby?) I’m excited to have another forum through which to share my [...]

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Stars Aligned

By Brian | Published: February 3, 2011

I finished reading Patti Smith’s National Book Award winning memoir, Just Kids, and was struck by how, when Smith had her breakthrough poetry reading at St. Mark’s Church — the first time she performed with Lenny Kaye on guitar and began treading in the direction of her seminal album Horses — she had already done [...]

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Interview with Karen Russell

By Brian | Published: February 2, 2011

I had the good fortune of interviewing Karen Russell a couple of weeks ago, one of my favorite contemporary writers. She jumped out at me from the Best American Short Stories of 2007, edited by an author it turns we both love, Stephen King. Her short story collection, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by [...]

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