By: Danny Thomas there are a few things rolling through my brain to blog about this week… paradox of kids – loving them and being exhausted by them, and also being tired of and annoyed by the pervasiveness of that thought, and the multitudes of other parents you know who are thinking and […]
By: Danny Thomas well… it’s been over a month since I blogged which is strange because usually I am prolific in the summer… the summer makes me think. and it makes me take my time. and thinking, along with taking my time usually lead to writing… for me. but this summer has been full. Full. […]
By: Ann Brown I cannot discuss that book with you. Because my MOM read it and then she will call me and want to discuss it with me and then I will have to pour hot tar up my nose and into my brain so I can die. My mom is super open about sex […]
I had, like, five really hot topics for the blog but then something happened that changed everything: Firefox updated itself last night and my old computer won’t accept it anymore. So I had to switch to Safari. First, the Holocaust and now this. My people are always being persecuted. Plus, my people are not […]
By: Ann Brown There’s something that’s been bugging me since Passover. It’s the whole liberation thing. Don’t tell anyone, but…..I am just not all that into liberation. You know what liberation brings? Responsibility. So, um, yeah. No thanks. As a slave in Egypt, what would I worry about? Nothing, that’s what. Room and board: check. […]
By: Ann Brown Who thought of that stupid Facebook thing, anyway? You know, that app where everyone lists all the places they’ve been and shares their bucket list and seizes the day and puts pins on the map and shit? What a load. 100 PLACES TO VISIT BEFORE YOU DIE. Fuck that shit. No one […]
By: Tanya Ward Goodman Today, wearing a hooded sweatshirt, old jeans, and a headlamp, I scaled a cement wall, shimmied under a heating duct, and crawled across rubble. Up until the very moment I did this thing, the thought of doing it made my heart beat a little faster, but once I was under my […]
By: Ann Brown My birthday is almost over. Only thirteen more hours. Thank God. I have a shitload of things I want to do today and they don’t seem, I don’t know, birthdayish kinds of things, so I have to wait until tomorrow. Which, frankly, flies in the face of everyone’s wishes to […]
By: Danny Thomas oh. my. god. I have three kids and a job and a wife who is at the beginning stages of a career that is the breadwinning career for our family so she has to put in the hours whatever they may be and she is a teacher so that means […]
Interview with Danny Thomas by The Next Family TNF: How has it been blogging for TNF? I love blogging for TNF. It’s been a fun journey into myself, a great way to explore what is important to me as a person and as a father… and also as a writer. I have discovered, through […]
