I learned so much more than a foreign language
I took four years of French in high school with Lester Maroney, a good teacher who was also a little crazy. Lester would hand out detentions as if they were…
Pets. Part 1.
Earlier in the summer, I posted about all the jobs that I’ve had in my life. It turned out to be a popular post, and I loved the fact that…
Strangest question this year
Strangest question asked of me while on book tour this year: How have your ex-girlfriends played a role in the writing of your fiction? When I asked the woman if something…
Disoriented but on time
Why is it that my body can wake me up every morning around 4:45 without an alarm but I have to look at my phone in order to determine what…
Ladies. Please. My daughter’s future is at stake.
“A 2007 study by the Workplace Bullying Institute found that 37 percent of the US workforce reported being bullied at work. Among those who mistreat their co-workers, women were more…
Roses are red. Not green.
For all the talk about the importance of local foods and the impact that shipping food from around the world has on the environment, isn’t it time to take a…
Are wives really this rotten?
On Slate’s recent Dear Prudence video podcasts, Emily Yoffe, who plays the role as Prudence, was giving advice to a pregnant woman who was suffering from nausea while at work. …
Unnecessary pages be gone!
When I was a kid, I used to tear out the pages of books as I finished reading each page. Read the page, look at the picture, then tear that…
Not nice. And not Jewish.
I just finished Jennifer Weiner’s book Fly Away Home, which details the story of the wife of a philandering Senator and the impact that an affair like this can have…
My wife kissed a strange man in exchange for fruit and alcohol
Elysha and I spent Sunday at the Patriots game, a glorious 38-24 defeat over the Cincinnati Bengals that featured a kickoff return for a touchdown and an interception returned for…
