I can play favorites with my children but not my books
Yesterday a reader in Australia who has now read all three of my novels asked which is my favorite. It’s a question that I’ve heard authors asked many times before,…
Hybrid snobbery
The grocery store that will sell me damn good pizza but cannot deign to provide a soda that wasn’t squeezed from the bark of a tree has decided to offer…
Best baby gift so far
It actually made Elysha a little teary-eyed, but she’s still pretty hormonal, so I’m not sure how much of the emotion was genuine.
The first rule of memoir
As I prepare to write my first memoir, I shall embrace this concept fully. You have been warned, you rotten people who did bad things to me.
The Moth: Bike Off Roof
On April 19 of this year, I took the stage at The Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works in Manhattan to tell a story. The theme of the night was Armor. …
Competing against my hero
Storyteller Steve Zimmer is a hero of mine. I’ve listened to him several times on The Moth’s weekly podcast and have heard him tell stories live at Moth events around…
My hometown on Blackstone, Massachusetts needs to learn the value of doing nothing
I grew up in Blackstone, Massachusetts, a small town on the border of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. I love Blackstone. It was a wonderful place to grow up. I’ve actually…
Resemblance update
For those of you who doubted the resemblance when I first posted photos of my newborn son and his grandfather, what do you think now?
When my wife and I argue, it’s about how our eldest child was conceived
I recently read that money is the number one thing that people say they argue about most in marriage.Arguing about the children is second on the list.To be honest, my…
