I wasn't prepared for the physical pains of parenthood--my wrist is sore from propping her up, my shoulder aches from her sleeping there. I'm not used to holding a 10-pound object for hours at a time.

If the Timberwolves play like this every night, they're going all the way.

I'm not sure this is true. There are prolific writers in every era, this one being no exception. Just look at Colson Whitehead's output over the past eight years. Besides, Joan Didion published three books in the 70s, three in the 80s, and two in the 90s. Not exactly scorching.

Thanks to Dove Men+Care for sending a care package after reading about my recent head wound. This in particular is helping rid my office of the newborn/writerly desperation smell it’s acquired as my book deadline looms.

*whispers* I just finished Part Two of the book. On to the final section....

Don’t believe that innocent face—this colicky girl has decided that sleeping at night isn’t for us.

I was googling greatest NBA players without a ring and the name Elgin Baylor kept popping up, but I believe that he won in 1972. Or do we not count that because he played only nine games that season and didn't factor in the Finals?

It's always been amusing to me to listen to those on the right decry universities as 'woke' when in reality they strike me as some of the more unwoke workspaces you can imagine, with their heavy reliance on adjunct labor and rather terrible work-life balance.

My wife and I celebrate our first wedding anniversary next week and we're trying to figure out how to do a date night with a one-month-old. Do we order in? Go to a restaurant but eat outside? Just bypass this year altogether?

Once again I'm grateful for the generous parental leave I have and mystified that we haven't found a way as a country to offer it every new parent out there.

The editorial cartoon in today’s St Louis Post-Dispatch.