The Bruins win! It’s kind of depressing.
For the first time since the year of my birth, the Boston Bruins have won the Stanley Cup. This, in combination with the Miami Heat’s recent defeat to the Dallas…
Pure genius!
My two-year old just made her first text-to-self connection. Teachers will understand how big a deal this is. My wife was reading her Make Way for Ducklings, and tonight they…
Three lessons learned from Dicks
One of my Twitter followers pointed out (in response to the recent post about my last name) that not everyone has suffered at the hands of the surname Dicks. He…
It’s not the song (which is great), but the time and station that matter most
Have you seen Neil Patrick Harris’s opening song to this year’s Tony Awards? It’s outstanding, even with Brooke Shield’s blatant attempt to ruin it. But you know what I liked…
Cowardly punks deserve to lose the NBA championship
From Tim McMahon’s story, posted on ESPN: Dirk Nowitzki's sinus infection and the ensuing storyline apparently was a source of amusement for Miami Heat superstars Dwyane Wade and LeBron James…
The letter E and the letter F
My two-year old, Clara, handed my wife the letter E from her plastic alphabet set and said, "This is an E. It says eee." Elysha and I were cautiously optimistic.…
“A friend in need is a friend indeed” is more complicated than it appears.
A friend in need is a friend indeed. I have always been under the impression that this proverb has a derogatory connotation. I thought it meant that when someone is…
More problems with Dicks
I recently wrote about my need to change my last name in the UK for the purposes of publishing. While I am happy to be retaining my given name in…
My single statement
Seed magazine asks: If you only had a single statement to pass onto others summarizing the most vital lesson to be drawn from your work, what would it be? The…
