Like any author, when I opened the box with Darby Saxbe’s book, “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Life,”, I flipped to the index to see if I’d made it in. Saxbe is a psychologist at USC, and she’d interviewed me, as the founder of The Company of Dads, […]
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