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...also care for their kids while their partner works.) The Internet site slowlane.com the leading information clearinghouse for at-home dads, logged 4.5 million hits in 2001, up a million from the year before. "This is a choice that just makes good practical sense for many couples," says Libby Gill, author of last year's how-to guide Stay-at-Home Dads (Plume). With 10 million working women earning more than their husbands in 1999, there's sheer practicality in choosing the partner who makes more money to be the breadwinner. But in many cases, couples choose this role reversal...
...those style differences--and the still unusual nature of the at-home-dad arrangement--can take some getting used to. Husbands and wives may be jealous of each other's work. Many moms feel guilty about leaving or frustrated by giving up control. When Stay-at-Home Dads author Gill came home from her job as a television executive to find her kids "dressed in plaid and stripes," she recalls, "I had to say to myself, 'Just let it go. That's no longer part of your job.'" To ease the stress, some couples opt to take turns every...
...shared with the best lyricists of his generation, no longer applied in a day when songwriters twinned "June" with "broom" and "time" with "mine." Like Parker and Peter Arno, he represented The New Yorker's vanished ages. He vanished from the magazine's history, never once mentioned by Brendan Gill in "Here at The New Yorker's 428 pages. He died May 19, 1971, and by then, His passing was hardly more remarked than the ones he elegized...
...Gill bought the restaurant with the 2 a.m. closing time set, and didn’t seem to have any qualms about the conditions of his license...
Originally from the Indian state of Punjab, Gill has been living in Boston for 20 years...