Archive for February 2012
Gratitude journal: Just the right movie for a workout
Most of the elliptical machines that I use at the gym are equipped with televisions. I often spend my 30-45 minutes of cardio listening to podcasts, audiobooks and music, but occasionally, AMC, Spike, FX, or even ABC Family will run just the right movie to watch while working out. And sometimes that movie will be…
Read MoreShopping and cooking take too much damn time.
The greatest failing of the modern world is our inability to invent a Jetsons-like push-button food machine.
Read MoreHappy to not suffer from a shrinking penis
David Brook’s book The Social Animal makes reference to a mental condition known as koro. Koro is a culture-specific syndrome from Southeast Asia in which the person has an overpowering belief that his penis is shrinking and will shortly disappear. Also known as shrinking penis, the syndrome is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual…
Read MoreMindy Kaling’s 13 Rules for Guys
Mindy Kaling’s memoir Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me has a chapter that lists and explains Kaling’s 13 Rules for Guys. I liked the list immediately because of its number. Thirteen. Not ten. Not a even dozen. Not twenty. The decidedly un-round number thirteen. I never trust a list that contains a round number of items. It’s too…
Read MoreI know she’s not actually reading…
… but it’s still freakin’ cute!
Read MoreGratitude journal: Daddy!
Almost without fail, my favorite moment of every day is moment I step through the door after work and hear my daughter shout “Daddy!” Most of the time she comes running to greet me, but even when she doesn’t, the words are always enough to make every day perfect, at least for that minute.
Read MoreCat Stevens taught me that authors should not act like jerks.
I have a more-than-slight tendency to act like a jerk. I can be biting, sarcastic, oppositional, confrontational, aggravating, nonconforming, and disagreeable. My mother referred to me as The Instigator. I like to think that over the years, this tendency has become less pronounced, This is because I have learned to restrain myself. I have chosen…
Read MoreReal estate booming in certain sectors
Whenever we drive by construction site and machines are digging into the ground, Clara says that they are digging holes for rabbits. It’s a cute and sweet and innocent comment, but how many homeless rabbits does this girl think there are?
Read MoreGratitude journal: This and this
A lot of preparation required in order to watch TV
Sometimes a couch and a couple pillows just aren’t good enough. Sometimes my daughter requires a couple carefully chosen friends, a strategically placed umbrella, a well worn winter hat and her favorite red chair in order to enjoy Sesame Street. I fear this girl is going to be extremely high maintenance.
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