Peter Catapano
Peter Catapano is the editor of Happy Days, Home Fires, and other opinion series at the New York Times Web site. He lives in Brooklyn.
Recent Posts by Peter
Santa by Faith Alone
She knows. My much-loved, hyper-aware six-year old daughter—a little cable-starved urchin (her parents will only spring for basic) whose television hero and role model is the obsessive-compulsive detective, Monk—has discovered there is no Santa Claus. Given her gumshoe mind I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. One of the joys of parenthood is finding…