In need of a new theme song
I need a new theme song. My first, from several years back, was Simon and Garfunkel's I Am a Rock. It was a time in my life when I was…
Why lift weights and run when you can fuse with your gym towel?
Towel Fusion? Really? “…guaranteed to create a total body fusion!” With your towel. What’s next? Tube sock fusion? Jock strap fusion? Contact lens fusion? Just when I am finally willing…
An admittedly heated response about the notion that a librarian can’t read Shakespeare
One of the students who I'm working with this summer told me that he doesn't like Shakespeare. I told him that he doesn't like Shakespeare because he doesn't know Shakespeare,…
Everything’s wrong.
My daughter, though only two-years old, is already prone to drama. It is not uncommon for her to wake up from her nap and say, “Mommy, something’s wrong.” “What’s wrong?”…
Wikipedia: I could read this stuff all day long
I love Wikipedia. I think it is one of the single greatest creations in human history. Reading Wikipedia has become a bit of a passion for me. Though there is…
Protecting your KRAFT Macaroni & Cheese
My editor directed me to this via Twitter yesterday. It’s brilliant. It is brilliant because embedded within the humor and silliness is pure truth. It’s the kind of advertisement that…
“Nobody puts baby in the corner” changes ever-so-slightly with fatherhood
Things change when you have a child. You begin to feel differently about a multitude of life’s experiences. The entire world takes on new meaning and nuance. Take Dirty Dancing.…
718 words on 13 words: A literary analysis and deconstruction of my daughter’s very first story.
Yesterday I wrote about my daughter’s first story. Her story went like this: Once upon a time there was a bear. She ate dinner. The End. Then I tweeted about…
My wife’s reaction to my latest idea was predicable and understandable.
I had an idea yesterday, probably born from several sources, including my success at The Moth, a sudden burst of amusing anecdotes and my bi-weekly intake of Marc Maron’s popular…
Clara Dicks’s first original story
My daughter told me to go to sleep (a frequent demand), and then, instead of waking me up with a kiss or (more often) a smack on the butt, she…
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