Unexpected sympathy
As a person who was once killed by bees, it was difficult to imagine any scenario in which I might feel sympathy for them. I think of them as tiny…
My lack of a nightstand
I was recently interviewed by author Victoria Loustalot for her blog The Pencil Box. The interview posted yesterday. She asked me to photograph my nightstand (I don’t actually own one)…
Gratitude journal: Rocketfish RF-MAB2 Headphones
Tonight I am grateful for my Rocketfish Mobile RF-MAB2 High-Definition Stereo Bluetooth Headphones, given to me by my wife for Christmas two years ago and by far the absolute best…
Lowering the bar for husbands everywhere
It’s always refreshing to see a husband be so inexplicably unsupportive of his wife as Marcus Bachmann apparently was during his wife’s final day of campaigning in Iowa. As she…
Gratitude journal: Bowling for Soup
Tonight I am grateful for Bowling for Soup, a band which provides me with some of my best workout music. Upbeat, funny, and possessing sensibilities very similar to my own.…
Perfect descriptor
My wife is very funny, but she gets little credit for her sense of humor and scoffs at any attempt to assert that she is funny. But she is. This…
Gratitude journal: Clara’s special kiss
Tonight I am grateful for the way Clara grabs my cheeks and pulls me into her face to kiss me before bed. We call it her special kiss, and it…
Elysha’s surprise party
Following the post describing my marriage proposal to Elysha, I received a number of requests for the story of her surprise birthday party, which took place a little more than…
When you’re done pushing the baby out, I have a sentence to write, honey.
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in…
Gratitude journal: The perfect babysitter
Tonight I am grateful for Allison, my former second and third grade student who is now in college and has become my daughter’s primary babysitter. There was a time when…
