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Blue Stripy is my favorite pair of underwear. What’s yours?

Am I the only one who thinks it odd that our underwear drawers are filled with underwear of varying types, styles and appearances? This morning, I put on my favorite pair of underwear. It’s my favorite primarily because of its fit. It’s a pair of striped-blue boxer briefs, and it adheres to my body ideally in…

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The mystery of net carbs, the most redundant name in human history and inexplicable online gaming, all in a bottle of 4C iced tea

In our recent pantry purge, I found this container of 4C iced tea mix. Note that the packaging indicates that contains 4 grams of net carbs per serving. Net carbs? Does a serving actually contain 5 net carbs, but the manufacturer assumes you will burn at least one carb stirring the stuff?   Naturally, I…

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Harry Potter wants my wife

I don’t like the advertising slogan for the new Harry Potter film one bit.    IT ALL ENDS.      7.15 My wedding anniversary is July 15.  I keep expecting Daniel Radcliff to knock down my front door, flourishing a magical wand and a flying broom, and steal my somewhat willing wife away.  

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Unequal footing and a first peek into St. Martin’s Press

Prior to performing at The Moth last Tuesday, I stopped by at the beautiful Flatiron Building for a meeting with my editor, her assistant and the social media director for St. Martin’s. It’s always slightly surreal to meet someone who knows me through Twitter and my blog but who I do not know at all.…

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Elmo says, “Pick me! Pick me!”

When I saw this scene at first, I didn’t think much of it. A bunch of little people standing on a wooden puzzle with a pig positioned just below them in a chair. Big deal. Not the most interesting scene my daughter has ever created, and probably not worth photographing. No discernable storyline. But then…

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I hate mulligans

I played golf last week with a guy who has a 3 handicap. For you non-golfers, this means that he is an extremely good player. And by all accounts, he was, scoring well under par for the first six holes. Which is why it annoyed me so much when on the seventh hole, he hit…

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Women stick together at every age

My wife recently got a haircut. When she came home, she began talking about it with our two-year old daughter in preparation for her eventual haircut. She said, “Mommy got a haircut. Daddy have to love it.” Wisdom (but not grammar) beyond her years, my friends.

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Are writers’ colonies good for writing or simply indulgent escape mechanisms for the undisciplined?

The first two paragraphs from a recent New York Observer column reads thusly: They summer in the colonies, the writers of New York, scattering forth to the hills as the days grow more sultry: to Yaddo, to MacDowell, to Millay and Ledig House! They go to work, of course, to work uninterruptedly and produce literary…

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Black and invisible

Quick. Name me the last three missing or murdered children who you can think of excluding Caylee Anthony. Done? Okay. How many of those children are not white? And while we’re at it, how many are not female and not blond? In fact, name just one missing or murdered child who was not white. Or…

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Public marriage proposal: FAIL

I recently wrote about my 5 rules to the successful marriage proposal. Having executed my own successful public proposal, I felt qualified.    This proposal is ill advised on so many levels.

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