I see dead people. Occasionally. Usually in restaurants.
It’s always a little upsetting when I look across a restaurant and think I know the person sitting at a table, and then I realize that it can’t be the…
Childhood hunger strikes fail to initiate change but perhaps define a life
After listening to a story about summer camps on NPR, I found myself thinking back on my summers spent at Yawgoog Scout Reservation in Rockville, Rhode Island. They were by…
Ominous automobiles and probable getaway cars
Have you ever noticed that every car parked outside a 7-11 looks like a getaway car? Perhaps it’s because I was once robbed at gunpoint, or perhaps it’s because I…
A bunny and a super hero: A sordid tale of unlikely love
Poor Mr. Bunny. Mrs. Bunny has tossed him out of the bed. And with no sofa to sleep on, he has been relegated to the floor. Wait. What’s this? Someone…
A convergence of fabulousness
Written by Jason Segel. Directed by James Bobin, the creator of Flight of the Conchords. Starring Segel and Amy Adams, and featuring, among others, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, Zach…
The ones who fell out of the back of the pickup trucks are dead. Worse, they are forgotten.
Unfulfilled potential is difficult, if not impossible, to measure. Yet we ignore this fact almost constantly. I mentioned to someone that I need to buy a bike helmet for Clara now…
Pretty and precious
My daughter almost never smiles for the camera, so this photograph is both incredibly cute and remarkably rare.
Is being a woman like living in Shark Week all the time?
I have yet to find the actual study referenced in this article, so there is hope that the methodology that led to the statistics listed below was poor and the…
The Star Wars theme song. Sung in French. And that’s not actually the most frightening part.
Some things should be sacred. There may be no better argument in favor of editors, the editorial process, and even certain barriers to publication than this:
Cat allowed. Daddy not.
I took these photos of my daughter from a hiding place in the kitchen. I watched her for about five minutes before she finally noticed me and told me to…
