Middle Names Are Kind Of Like Vice

Once In A While You Get A Moment Of Clarity - An Inspiration - And They Don't Come That Frequently.

People Come Up To Us And Ask How We Knew So Much About Their Own Family... I'm Talking About People From Faraway Places, Too. I Get People From Turkey And Chile Coming Up To Me And Saying I Wrote About Their Family.

My Parenting Style Could Be Described As Not Good Cop Or Bad Cop So Much As Nervous Cop. I'm Always Yelling For Somebody To Stop Because They're About To Get Hurt. I'm The Take A Jacket, Slow Down Guy.

We All Hold On To Some Image Of The Family We Want, Based One Way Or Another On The Family We Had. Lots Of People Are Thrilled About The Families They Came From, Others Couldn't Get Away Fast Enough. Most People Fall Into That Vast Middle Ground: Great Affection Mixed With A Few Ideas For Improvement. A Couple Of Things They Wish Could Have Perhaps Been Done Differently.

A New Child In The House Is A Huge Tourist Attraction. It's Like Disneyland, Except There The Lines Are Longer And No One Brings Casseroles.