Gratitude journal: The perfect game
Tonight I am grateful for poker. It is a perfect game. It creates an environment in which a group of players attempt to extract money from one another by utilizing…
Insightful and hilarious confirmation that my publisher and I are a perfect match
In a recent meeting with the sales, publicity and marketing team of my publisher, St. Martin’s Press, I was asked about the decision to publish in the UK under the…
Bun Head’s lesson to a bad boy and future teacher.
I recently told a story onstage as part of a joint venture between The Story Collider and the New York Academy of Sciences. It’s a story about my high school biology…
Gratitude journal: I didn’t marry that woman.
Tonight I am grateful that my wife is not the woman who was sitting behind me during last night’s Second City performance, failing to hear about a third of the…
The evolving sadness of my mother’s death
St. Patrick’s Day would have been my mother’s 62nd birthday. She passed away in 2007. Losing a mother is never easy. Losing one so early in life is especially hard.…
Gratitude journal: My big little writers
Tonight I am grateful for my class of earnest, committed and genuinely talented writers. As part of their reward for completing two weeks of standardized testing, my class enjoyed a…
Radio New Zealand interview
I did an interview with Radio New Zealand this evening. I think it went pretty well. You can listen to it by clicking on the link below. The most…
Heartbreakingly amusing
It’s not easy to record a video that makes your wife sad but also makes her want to watch it again and again. These two videos accomplish this goal.
New York girl
I love this photo of my daughter. Taken by her grandfather aboard a NYC bus two weeks ago, I love how she looks like such a little girl and such…
Gratitude journal: A lost cow finds its way home
Tonight I am grateful for the reappearance of Baby Cow. Baby Cow is one of my daughter’s favorite little people toys, and she has been missing for almost two days.…
