Barnabas Monkeypants

I’m in Seattle — flew in Tuesday afternoon and am getting on a plane in another four hours to come home. I was able to walk around the downtown area for a bit yesterday evening, and it’s a fine city. As I’ve said before, when I travel for work, I rarely get a chance to [...]

Our downstairs neighbor (and someone who we are nominating for sainthood) Lillian looked after Henry for a couple of hours on Friday while I was away in Texas and Kristen had to run into work. Our child is something of a ham, so he’s more than happy to have a new person to smile at [...]

My job entails that I sometimes travel. Over the past year, I’ve been to Phoenix, San Francisco, Tampa, New Orleans, and several other places. For the most part, I fly to my destination, get into a waiting SUV, go to a hotel, work, sleep (for not very long), work, get into an SUV, and back [...]

Having a baby means doing things only when a window of opportunity opens up. You can plan all you want (and we do), but things change all the time. Your friend calls up and says that they want to go for a walk at 3. “Sure,” you answer, until it’s 2:50, and Henry is fast [...]

If ever I’m suffering from low-blood pressure, I know that I can easily just log-on to the Internet, go to some newspaper’s site, and click on the comment section linked to a political story. Just by reading a few of these posts, voila! I’m healed. The problem with these inane authors is that they are [...]

Starting when I was 13, I worked at my town’s comic book store (a teenage geek’s dream come true). It was the best job I could ever hope for, and I really honed my comic book trivia skills in those years (skills which have translated into … well, nothing in my adulthood). I still love [...]