Voices
Who buys a newspaper in 2025?
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show August 8. If you’ll humor me, I’d like to take a month off from Modern Dad to share some exciting news in case you flipped past page two. I’m talking about you, mom. My parents moved here 26 years ago. Ten years ago, The Mother of Dragons, Future Man, […]
Father’s Day advice from a Modern Dad
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show June 13. When I need to think, or when I’m searching for an answer to a problem, I go outside and look around. When I was a kid I would lay down in the grass and look at the clouds. I’d sit in a tree and look at the […]
Lovesac, that’s where it’s at
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show May 9. Eighteen years ago, when we sold our condo and bought our first house, we also sold our couch to the buyers, so we had to buy a new couch immediately. We weren’t exactly flush with cash but we made enough off the sale of the condo to […]
How I connected with a movie star
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show April 4. Gene Hackman died in February at the age of 95. I’m not much of a Hollywood guy. I don’t really care about celebrities. I don’t think they resonate with me because I don’t really know them. My only connection to them is the characters they’re pretending to […]
Despite the name, pop music isn’t for dads
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show March 7. When I was 12 years old, my mom opened my bedroom door while I was doing homework and listening to Eazy-Duz-It, the 1988 album by rapper Eazy-E, who was—and remains—my favorite rapper. As she opened the door, Eazy laid down a lyric on Nobody Move that is […]
Stinking to high heaven no more
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show Feb. 7. There’s a skunk in our neighborhood that has been wreaking havoc on us for years. Wreaking havoc might be a strong statement but it’s a skunk and it smells terrible and there’s something very displeasing about growing used to the smell of fresh skunk spray most mornings […]
Dancing like everyone’s watching
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show Jan. 10. There are some things in life I just don’t like to do that most people enjoy. If I were a better person, I guess I would suck it up and do things I don’t enjoy. Maybe I’d make it a New Year’s resolution. At the end of […]
Show Ho Ho: It’s Christmas card time again
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show Dec. 6. My family Christmas card has been an annual burden since 2005, when The Mother of Dragons and I got married and sent out our first holiday card because she wanted to start sending holiday cards. It began on a Saturday night in early December, when we were […]
How I got even with a text scammer
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show Nov. 8. You know those spam text messages you get from unknown numbers that are like, “Will you join us today?” If you respond, “Who is this,” or, “You have the wrong number,” then you get an answer like, “Oh, sorry for contacting you.” And then the person on […]
It’s a month of big birthdays around here. Cornelius Today turns 20 and Future Man turns 16.
MODERN DAD | By Jon Show Oct. 18. That’s right. Sixteen. Let me tell you how rewarding it is to live with a 16-year-old. Most of his communication is in the form of grunts. He simultaneously needs things from me and wants nothing to do with me. As I write this, he just fell down […]
