This week’s column is inspired by Dad 2.019 Speaker Shannon Carpenter, whose Porchlight Post “Flexing Through Fatherhood” (see below) confronts that queasy feeling when your family looks to you for the answers you don’t have. … Read More
FoF: All Inked Up, and Everywhere To Go
He walked into the tattoo studio armed with years of planning and a forearm’s length of fresh real estate. The idea of a quill pen tattoo had persisted in Whit Honea‘s head for at least … Read More
FoF: Paid Leave Gains A Powerful Ally
Did read the news this week? Lots of talk about what masculinity is, and indignant rebuttals asserting what masculinity isn’t. We’re not surprised that companies dedicated to a man’s skin should want to get beneath … Read More
FoF: Close Called It
At last weekend’s Golden Globes ceremony, amid all of the shiny people exchanging shiny things, a speech by Glenn Close received a roaring ovation. As Close accepted her Best Actress award for The Wife, which is about … Read More
FoF: The Person-to-Person Business
At a time when many of us are about to gather with people we (hopefully) love, we’re starting to pay more attention to those who don’t get nearly enough. Adult loneliness has become such an … Read More
FoF: Fatherhood Is A Gift
We’re back! After a week off for #BlackFriday and #SmallBusinessSaturday and #CyberMonday and myriad other hashtags designed to foment mass consumerism, we’ve been spending this week concentrating on a spree of benefaction that began with … Read More
FoF: When Fatherhood Keeps The Fires At Bay
A lot of parenting relies on establishing a routine to help stave off the chaos. Routines range from the fluidly flexible to the set in stone, and they give parenting its pace, the beat we … Read More
FoF: Dads B Sexy AF
Every week, we’re just plain astonished by how seven days of living contains about 30 years’ worth of news. As if the midterms and their volatile aftermath weren’t enough, thousands of northwest Los Angelenos (including … Read More
FoF: When Social Media Literally #NailedIt
If you’re hanging around Franklin, Massachusetts, today, you might see more people than usual walking around with painted fingernails. This is just the latest development in the worldwide whirlwind of attention that has descended on … Read More
FoF: Amid The Storm, A Calming Brees
Earlier this week, Saints quarterback Drew Brees set the NFL record for passing yards in front of a nationwide Monday Night Football audience. And amid the massive celebration, among the bright lights and a frenzied … Read More