Gratitude for gloves and mittens
Tonight I am grateful for my gloves and mittens. I was reminded last night that I did not own gloves or mittens for much of my childhood. Instead, we wore…
The greatest sacrifice of all
I gave my daughter the last black and white cookie tonight after dinner. She began eating but then spit out the partially chewed cookie onto her plate, saying, “No! This…
Why Your Life Sucks in Two Simple Pictures
Jessica Hagy in Forbes wrote a piece entitled How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Easy Steps). It’s an insightful and amusing piece, but had I been her editor, I…
Why my daughter is free to watch Scooby Doo whenever she damn well pleases
Sometimes you run into sheer brilliance in the most unexpected places. On the Comics Alliance blog, Chris Sims writes about Scooby Doo and secular humanism in a piece that I…
