Pleasure in another person’s pain
From time to time, I have expressed an occasional appreciation for schadenfreude: pleasure in the misfortune of others. It turns out that I am not so unusual. after all Thanks…
Short-sightedness
Occasionally I make the mistake of thinking about my friends’ needs ahead of my own. Rarely does it work out well. About a month ago, I suggested that my friend…
You have some explaining to do, John Boy.
I watched the Project Runway season premier last night. I realize that this may sound odd coming from a man who professes to despise the fashion industry, but I find…
The precipice of publication
Just a few days before the release of UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO and some good news has been pouring in. The Hartford Courant’s review of the book was excellent: We are happy…
Believers always welcome
A reader recently sent me an email explaining that she has not yet posted a comment on my blog even though she has wanted to many, many times because she…
Only in corporate America
I was sitting in Red Robin yesterday, waiting for my wife to arrive. Beside me, spread across two tables that had been pushed apart, was the cartoon map of a…
As a writer, I often have no idea what I’m doing
Here’s how crazy my writing process can be: I open the next chapter of my manuscript in a restaurant. Protagonist, father and son sitting at a table, waiting for their…
Stupid tee shirt made stupider
I saw a woman in the gym today with a tee-shirt that read: A friend will help you move… Then on the back of the tee-shirt, it read: But a…
I was right! (insert self-congratulatory jig)
I received the following email (links added by me) from a reader this morning, who gave me permission to post it here absent his or her name: _____________________________________ Your post entitled…
The first table is merely a suggestion.
The fact that I cannot walk into a restaurant full of empty tables and simply choose the table that I want baffles me. I understand that when the joint is…
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