Ever since my wife and I started trying out various “barefoot” shoes after reading Born to Run, my now-six-year-old daughter has been clamoring for barefoot shoes of her own. After all, she says, if this sort of shoe is supposed to be the best thing for your feet, why don’t ...

Running barefoot is actually the best thing for your feet and knees, and wearing conventional running shoes is bad. That’s the news according to a report published at the end of January by Harvard biologist Daniel Lieberman. Of course, I knew all that already because of Born to Run by Christopher ...

This post originally appeared on my music column ‘The Crossroads’ over at Dad Blogs on September 24, 2009. One of my earliest memories of hearing Bruce Springsteen’s music was as a kid growing up in New Jersey. When I was twelve years old my uncle gave me the ‘Live ‘75 ...