Geoffrey Redick's posts

We had my son’s fourth birthday party the day the Patriots beat the Falcons in the Super Bowl. As everyone knows,…

Kids fall down a lot, and they hurt themselves a lot. It’s a feature, not a bug. You gotta crawl before you can…

I didn’t want to stop.

“Uptown got its hustlers, the Bowery got its bums. Forty-second Street got big Jim Walker, he a pool-shootin’ son of…

The bun has been in the oven for nine months, and now it’s toasted golden brown. Time to get it out!

I’m terrified of flying.

I’ve always hated haircuts. In high school and college, when I was going for “a look,” my hair was the easiest part…

When I was 11, I wanted to be a veterinarian. Playing with animals all day seemed like a fun gig. Around this time,…

In the game of adulting, a herd accompanies you past the milestones. When you’re young, everyone you know is…

When you’re a kid, there’s no party like a slumber party. Staying up late, learning how to burp the alphabet, eating…

On Saturdays, I play pick-up soccer with a regular group of guys. We use any open field we can find. That got harder…

Like the proper way to hang a roll of toilet paper, the location of a sleeping child is a reliable internet fight…

Daylight is waning, the temperature is dropping and the snow is flying. ‘Tis the season of frenzied shopping,…

The paradox of parenting is that you can perform all the functions and still feel like an imposter. Changing…

People are meant to move. We’ve been doing it for tens of thousands of years. Chasing mammoths across the tundra,…

You’re pooping right now, reading this. Probably constipated. Or you’re in the back of an Uber, stuck in traffic.…

America, our possessions are ruining us. Even as you read these words, container ships are churning through the…

There’s an idea that parallel universes exist simultaneously, and every possible outcome of every event in history…

Let’s talk about pets. They are made for cuddling. They nuzzle and purr and wiggle. They show their cute little…

What should I be when I grow up?