Links, links, links. Nothing but links today. I'm two weeks behind, maybe more. Ugh. Let me start by pointing out a link omission: no stories (according to Nexis) were written about the at-home dad convention. Kind of disappointing. I know that the phenomenon is now years old, and the gathering may not have the kind of novel pull it once did, but it would be nice if it got some coverage, somewhere, every year.

Wicked interesting piece last month in an Indiana University student newspaper on what college women think about staying home. In addition to a certain amount of charming college-age naivete, it illustrates pretty clearly that a number of well-educated women are thinking about the choice well in advance of having kids. Now, some of the women say they won't stay home, and some want part-time solutions, but nearly every woman has an opinion. It underscores a Rebel Dad problem: I'd be willing to bet most college men, to the extent they've thought this through at all, operate on the assumption that they'll work. How the heck do you get it through to those guys that they have the same choice the women do?

A San Diego TV station ran this story about a husband and wife who swapped the at-home duty. Nothing special, but an admirable story about a family trying to find the right balance.

And there's this North Carolina TV station report about a guy who realized he'd developed a heck of a skill by staying home, so he opened an innovate short-term daycare.

To the dad who said they couldn't sneak a weekend away for the convention: how 'bout this at-home dad, who is taking a couple of months off from his dad gig to traipse around Antarctica. Not a bad arrangement, methinks.