Archive for October 2011
Have you ever seen a more beautiful sunrise?
It’s back. It’s back.
Read MoreA lost wedding ring, an unfriendly receptionist and peeing in the wrong place
My morning started off well enough. I stepped on the scale and discovered that I was eight-tenths of a pound away from my goal weight. Considering this represented a 53 pound drop in weight over a two year period, I was pretty excited. Then my day proceeded to be consumed in a variety of missteps. …
Read MoreSuggested revisions to religious services (and an offer to lead your congregation to happiness)
My wife and I brought our daughter to a blessedly brief children’s service a couple weeks ago during Rosh Hashanah. Granted I don’t have a lot of experience with these kinds of things (not being Jewish and all), but in regards to Jewish religious services, this children’s service was just my speed. Some spirited music…
Read MoreWhat apple?
When we weren’t looking, Clara ate the apple. The whole apple. This is all that was left. Are we bad parents?
Read MoreNothing makes me happier…
…than seeing my daughter so filled with joy.
Read MoreThree suspect descriptors
In the past three days, I have been described in the following terms: When my wife and daughter pulled into the driveway last night to pick me up for dinner, Clara said: “Daddy is big. He’s a man. He cuddles me. He turns on the TV.” __________________________ On the way to The Moth event on…
Read MoreThoughts from my first Moth GrandSLAM
On Monday night, I had the honor of telling a story in The Moth GrandSLAM XXII as a result of winning a StorySLAM competition months earlier. It was an amazing night for me. I did not win, but I managed to come in third, which made me fairly happy. Honestly, my only goal was to…
Read MoreThe Moon sucks
My daughter is fascinated by the Moon. She thinks it is beautiful and precious. Little does she know what could have been.
Read MoreDraw a Stickman: A waste of time well spent
I avoid most video games. I do not load games onto my phone. I have never even seen a Facebook game. As a kid, I spent hours playing the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, various iterations of the Nintendo gaming system and PC games. Not to mention the thousands of quarters dropped into arcade games…
Read MoreImpressed. Briefly.
When my daughter was an infant, she rode in my car once. Since then, every ride has been in my wife’s car. No room for babies and car seats with the golf clubs and golf shoes and bucket of range balls that populate my back seat. Until today. When she got into the newly-installed car…
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