Uncle San-J, Gia & Elliot
Uncle San-J & Aunt Tra-C & Ava
THE END of DIAPERS: Like billions of parents, my wife & I have reached a milestone. Third daughter Kaya (Kaya on the Pot) is potty trained. Which means, after six and a half years of diapers, we’re done. After a couple of weeks of cold butt, namely, clothes off and icy shower for every accident, Kaya learned. Cruel? No. Effective? You bet.
Grandy, Ava, San-J & Tra-C
THE MONROE STATE FAIR YANG-YANG: This year my wife talked me into going to the Monroe State Fair. Usually she takes sister Tracy and the kids, giving me a win-win, or in the Daoist tradition, a yin-yin, as I escape the Fair and get a day to myself. But not this year. So what’s the Monroe State Fair like? Think Disneyland but shorter. That’s a yang-yang. Nevertheless, in the end, the kids loved it, so what can I say?
Cousins, Three Sisters + Nikolai and Baby Gemma
FATHERMUCKER: I contribute to The Nervous Breakdown, a literary site, and TNB editor Greg Olear will release Fathermucker this October from Harper, a novel up my alley about a stay-at-home father. I wrote an article for the 
Fathermucker blog, in the spirit of gender inequities, “The Double Standard Makes Sense.” The point? You think men and women are equal? Hell no. I use circumcision, penitentiaries, and other examples to hammer down.
A Visit From the Tessaro Family: Cora, Cleo, and Eva
The Ferry to Whidbey Island
THE DOUBLE STANDARD: “I am married, the stay-at-home father of three daughters, and a proud sexist. Two sexes deserve equal rights, but not equal treatment. Why? Because men and women are not equal. Duh…” (Read essay here)
Uncle Somjait and Cousins Orion, Damien, & Satori taking Ava & Gia to their first day of school
Poker Night! Andy, Uncle Somjait, Me, Uncle Sanjay
MY SISTERS FLY HOME: This summer, as usual, my two younger sisters visited from afar (referenced in my Fathermucker piece) with their families. Always nice to have them, as they make our family seem relatively normal (examples may come in later blogs). My youngest sister Min and husband Somjait and three kids live in Hawaii, and Sarah with husband Stig and son live in Saudi Arabia. Hectic but very nice to spend time together as a family.
September 11, 2011, the last 80 degree+ day of summer?
Notes of a Sexist Stay-at-home Father 
Separate but equal? Not separate, but deserving unequal treatment? My wife recently read an article attempting to convince us that male and female kids are so biologically similar that any differences showing up in school are the result of differing expectations from adults (favoring the “nurture” argument), to which I replied, but common sense and simple observation will tell you otherwise, not to mention ask any teacher of first graders. For e xample, pink on the playground is worn by girls. Why girls? Why not boys? This author would claim that boys would be ridiculed if they showed up in pink. I contend the boy has to first have th eimpulse to show up in pink before the ridicule can follow.
up on the playground in pink. I contend that first the boy has to have th eimpulse to wear pink before he can experience that humiliation. I haven’t observe any such impulse in my son.