…but it turns out that carrying Clementine on his back is actuallly a status symbol for TucsonDaddy, according to this article on paternal caregiving in nonhuman primates and other animals.

This fascinates me, of course, as do most things written by Natalie Angier (and Sarah Hrdy). As biologically deterministic as it might be, I like [...]

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And that totally sounds like a Beastie Boys song. Alas it is not. It is just a tale of our Sunday, which was a really good one.
Snow had been falling for a couple days and we’ve been eying the Catalinas, eager to get up there. Let me be clear–I hate being cold and wet, I [...]

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This fabulous essay on the current Tiger Woods-and-his-ladies scandal introduces you to two of my favorite writers: the essay’s author, Jill Soloway, wrote a hilarious book Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants–great collection of short nonfiction pieces (I’ve given this several times as gifts to friends). And in her essay on Tiger Woods, she quotes the [...]

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