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Fear Fuels Baby Business BoomLatest Family Life column details my nightmares in babyproofing and the billion-dollar “mommy market.” Published by Reuters, April 9, 2008
Dads Grapple With New Role: Tech SupportThis week’s column wonders why being a dad today so often means being an IT guy. Published by Retuers, March 11, 2008
An Inconvenient Truth - Kids Aren’t Perfect (No Duh)Latest Reuters column, this one a dinner party anecdote about a hot babysitter wrapped up in depressing ruminations about the basic savagery and superficiality of human nature. Fun! Published on Retuers, Feb. 26, 2008
Is a taste of deceit with carrots so bad for kids?The first piece written for my new “Family Life” column for Reuters is all about kids and food and how far we as parents will go to get something un-fried, un-sweetened and halfway nutritious into the mouths of our picky little tyrants. Published by Reuters, January 16, 2008
Can Enthusiasm for Breastfeeding Go Too Far?The second installment of my new Reuters column involves a celebrity pediatrician and my wife’s boobs. Response has been highly enjoyable, ranging from the dad who took the opportunity to rave about how he can bring his wife to orgasm through nursing to the New Zealand feminist blogger who can’t believe we didn’t get more worked up about our our groovy pediatrician.
Published on Reuters, Feb. 1, 2008
Irving the Snowchicken is Coming to TownForget Christmakkah and Festivus. Our interfaith holiday involves a magical rooster who fills the children’s pants with presents. Published on Salon.com, December 22, 2007
A new game for recovering hyperparents: bad dad one-upsmanshipFeature on parents’ increasing willingness to come clean about their lowest moments grew out of essay about episode involving my five year old daughter, a bad case of the hiccups and a gorilla head. Story ran in highly abridged form on the Reuter wire. Ran on Reuters News Service, November 9, 2007
The Secret to DatingThis column for the L.A. Times’ Calendar section began with an assignment to write about “what I wish I knew about dating when I was single.” I dug deep into my own humiliating record of romance and found a curious parallel with an unhealthy obsession of the moment: the Australian self-help DVD “The Secret.” Published on April 12, 2007
Pop’s Secretive Svengali, Mutt LangeInvestigative profile of pop genius Mutt Lange, a press-shy knob-twiddler behind chart-toppers as diverse as AC/DC, Tina Turner, the Backstreet Boys and Shania Twain. Good training for my run-in a few years later with another evasive celebrity, Mel Gibson. Published in January 2002 edition of National Post Magazine in Canada
‘Alternadad’ reviewNeal Pollack is a fellow Angeleno with a distaste for Barney and an obsessive desire for his kids to appreciate good rock and roll. Unsurprisingly, I liked his book a lot. Published in LA Times Book Review, January 21, 2007
This Summer, One Formula Fits AllA reported essay for Sunday Arts & Leisure on how big summer Hollywood movies are now created and marketed to both adults and children. These movies constitute a new kid-adult hybrid that operates on multiple levels, weaving adult themes into kid movies and making the yearning for childhood an explicit theme of adult-targeted films. Published on page one of Arts & Leisure, May 14, 2006
Four square for grownups?Written in advance of publication of Rejuvenile (and originally comissioned by GQ magazine), this participatory feature was a ton of fun to report; what if, I wondered, I took a break from my desk-bound theorizing and actually went out and competed against the most dedicated adult players of kidgames like kickball, rock paper scissors, tag, minigolf and a “watergun assassination tournament.” Published on Salon.com on June 28, 2006
A Big Goy Tackles the Whole MegillahMy pal the righteous Jewess Jill Soloway asked me to write and perform a wee monologue for a special event at Temple Israel of Hollywood, where my kids go to school. It was terrifying and fun to get up and lay out a little Torah interpretation, shaggutz-style… Monologue delivered at 's Heaping Portion performance series at Temple Israel of Hollywood, October 2006.
Remembering BettyMy grandmother Betty Lane was a teacher, artist and inspiring tho crotchety character who lived for most of her life in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I wrote this short essay for a 1997 retrospective of her work hosted by the Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts. From catalog for retrospective of works by Betty Lane, painter.
Arianna Huffington, candidate’s wifeThe Arianna Huffington profiled here in 1994 bears little resemblance to the progressive doyenne she’s become. I’m just sorry I didn’t question her a little more aggressively about her billionaire husband, who in short order lost his Senate bid, publicly revealed his homosexuality and split with his remarkable wife.
Published in Los Angeles Independent, 1994
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