Not long ago my wife and I received a text: an active shooter was near our son's school. It brought us to the brink of tragedy — and reminded me that some monsters are, in fact, real.

Earlier this year, I met with a friend to drink and toast our dads. The bar we were in was home to many happy memories — and where, one night, his dad was shot.

There's never been a better show about what’s it like to be alive in 2017 than a cartoon about animals in space created for kids that was canceled two years ago.

Becoming a parent changes the way you look at the world. And that includes movies. Cinema is filtered through a different lens now; the Dad lens.

My son Charlie is so cute people give him free stuff. Yeah, it's awesome for both of us. But will it end up making him a terrible person?

To make it happen, I sought advice from a Harvard psychologist and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy.

Sometimes the best parenting advice comes from watching some middle-aged guys in leather scream about Satan.