Father’s Day came with a flurry of interest in When I First Held You, and for a couple of weeks life was a whirlwind! You can find updated links in the Praise page under Fatherhood Anthology, and check out my new Press page to catch up on interviews – including one on The Atlantic – and an article on modern fatherhood on CNN that featured me.

I was very proud to see my essay I Told My Biological Father Goodbye – And It Made All the Difference at the top of Salon’s homepage over Father’s Day weekend. I started this essay years ago, while studying at The New School, and it passed through many iterations – some shorter, some longer – before finally taking this form. It’s probably the last I’ll say on the subject for a while, and that always feels good: writing about something to the point you feel like you’ve written it out of your system.

Also around Father’s Day my essay How Being a Stay-at-Home Dad Made My Embrace My Inner Feminist posted on Bustle. The piece was picked up by The Huffington Post and led to an appearance on The HuffPost Live. The piece was widely shared after Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls posted it to their Facebook page. I was very pleased, and, honestly, a bit surprised it resonated with so many readers. My thoughts on gender equality and feminism never struck me as being that newsworthy; they just are what they are. Hopefully in a few years the flurry of interest in that piece will seem dated, as it won’t be unusual for a father, or any man, to call himself a feminist.