It’s a well-known fact that I live each week like it’s Shark Week. The only thing that changes is the shark. Or my underpants, depending on said shark. This week is no different, but instead of contemplating the circle of life we’re looking at some of the other fish in ...

Many of you have no doubt seen the Wall Street Journal Saturday essay entitled “Where Have All the Good Men Gone?” Its author, Kay S. Hymowitz, makes the point that a large percentage of modern men are stuck in a “pre-adulthood” where they obsess over things like Star Wars and ...

I’m guessing that my fellow first-time dads have a lot of epiphanies about kids in the weeks right after their children are born. And I’m guessing that veteran dads who have already experienced the fog of fatherhood find most of these “epiphanies” more akin to tired cliches. Yes, yes, the ...

I’ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember.  It started one fateful evening when my family went out to dinner and there was this new machine at the restaurant, and it wasn’t a pinball machine.  It had two long blocks and the goal was to knock ...