Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

Every parent of young kids knows the feeling – you’re somewhere in the house doing something when you suddenly realize – it’s too quiet.

Immediately the internal alarm bells go off and you begin to search for your kids because you know if things are this quiet, they must be doing something wrong.

Well … I have the same sense of impending doom, but it’s not with my kids anymore – now it’s with my wife.

My wife is very predictable, every weekend when I’m sitting at the computer writing, she’s working around the house frustrated over my being at the computer and not help...