How does a one-year-old's mind and personality develop and grow? How does your role as a parent change when your baby starts to walk, talk and really explore the world around her? How do you support and understand your very young child as his independence increases and he starts to become a toddler, beginning to learn to dress himself, share toys and play with other children....

Introduction. 1. Brave New World. 2. The Value of Exploration. 3. Emerging Personality. 4. Having a Good Idea and Keeping It. 5. A Life of my Own. Conclusion: Looking forward with hope. Further Reading. Helpful Organisations. Index.

The blog is one year old today. What a funny year! I've had a great time, been passionately denounced, made a passel of new friends, slightly advanced my 1996-vintage HTML skills, been profiled, watched my readership grow steadily (and spikily, on those happy Gawker days), and found myself in the topsy-turvy position of defending new media on a panel of blog-hostile experts (plus a strangely compliant blogger).

Twelve months later, I'm far from the ultimate New Yorker authority, nor am I the magazine's #1 Fan in the Universe (too much pressure, and too Kathy Bates). But I guess I really am new media now, as well as an old-fashioned enthusiast who'll always love print. I'm grateful to Jasmin, Andrew, Jen (responsible for the fab logo and many emergency graphics), Ashby, Lisa Stone and Jay Rosen, Morgan, my family—my dad has since started blogging (on TPMCafe) himself!—Hillery, T.M.D.V., Hugo, Elizabeth, Todd, Patricia, the Dorothy Parker Society of New York, Scott, Peter, Eric, and Liza, who were especially helpful and enthusiastic at the start. Thanks to the good people of The New Yorker for working diligently and well to provide the springboard of this blog each week. And thank you so much, readers! I thought you might be out there, and here you are.

Look for lots of entertaining (and, of course, hard-hitting) new features in Year 2—plus more interviews with cartoon caption contest winners and others—and a very happy new year to you.

Understanding Your One-Year-Old [book]

Update: I see to my acute dismay that Ron Hogan of Beatrice dropped off the list above somehow, probably in the linking process. (There's a new kind of correction for you—"Due to a linking error...") But really, Ron's pretty damn close to #1 in the emdashes book for asking me to blog the New Yorker Festival, which was fantastic. He's been a consistent enthusiast and a big help from the beginning, and I thank him.

This is where I'm testing the Technorati tags for emdashes and Emily Gordon (that's me, although I'm growing weary of the popularity of "Emily" these days; I'm considering other options). Birthdays are for new enterprises.