My Husband Thinks I’m Fat

Tales from the 2nd Trimester: Part I In the wild, satisfying your pregnant partner’s food cravings can be quite difficult. Rumor has it expectant cavemen fathers would often fake an old wooly mammoth battle injury in hopes of evading their wife’s craving requests. Luckily today, man has traded hunting and gathering for supermarkets which are…

Smarter Than Your Average Bear

Tales from the 1st Trimester With the first trimester comes an emotional roller coaster of mood swings, nausea, and bizarre food cravings. And then of course there was how my wife was feeling. I was about prepared for a pregnancy as a Tyrannosaurus was for a face-slapping competition with Gumby. How did this actually happen,…

Two Pink Lines

 The Friday started out like any other. Beers with friends. Baseball on TV. Two faint pink lines on a cheap plastic device signaling my life was changed forever. After catching the first round of the baseball playoffs at a bar, I hopped on what  the SF Municipal  Transportation Agency calls a Muni Bus, but more…