Nick Bottom saves the day
Tonight I am thankful for Nick Bottom, the weaver-turned-actor from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. When every other joke or bit of amusement is flying over the heads of my…
In the company of greatness
My last name may have caused a kerfuffle in the UK, but it always places me in good company on the bookshelf, as one kind reader pointed out to me…
Towers and castles and monuments, oh my!
Almost overnight, my daughter has gone from a three or four block tower builder into someone much more ambitious and highly skilled. I’d like to think that she is constructing…
The reason that you are trying to lose weight could be the key to your success or failure
Since 2010, I have lost 55 pounds. I still get asked how I managed to accomplish this weight loss, and my standard (and slightly annoying) answer is that I decided…
