Untrustworthy narrator
On Wednesday my daughter will turn three years old. Ever since we discovered that my wife was pregnant (May 14, 2008), I have written a daily blog to our daughter…
Gratitude journal: Fraidy-cats
Tonight I am grateful to all the people of Connecticut who find it too dangerous or too inconvenient to leave their homes as the clouds overhead dump three or four…
The many covers of SOMETHING MISSING
By reader request, the following are the various covers of my first novel, Something Missing. The book’s foreign rights were also purchased in Russia and two other countries, but I…
You are probably stupid in comparison to your children, and you only have your parents to blame
A study was released this week reiterating the dangers of drinking alcohol while pregnant and identifying the end of the first trimester as the most dangerous time for a pregnant…
A Charlie Brown Christmas, again and again and again
When my wife’s parents bought this book and recorded themselves reading it (which is a clever idea), the intent was for my daughter to be able to open the book…
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…
Gratitude journal: My wife’s tears
Tonight I am grateful for my wife’s propensity to become teary-eyed when one of her students experiences success. Today I watched her eyes fill up with tears in front of…
