A bushel of book recommendations
Whenever I speak at an author event, I make a point of recommending books to the audience. The following are the books that I am recommending on my current book…
My childhood went by undocumented
Whenever I see photographs like these, I am struck by the fact that I don’t have a single photograph of me and my father together. I know that taking photos…
A peek into the inbox of an author
One of the goals of my future podcast, at least until my theoretical listeners redefine my goal through their input, will be to offer unpublished writers, readers, and even fellow…
Safety warnings ignored at risk to Lamby
Apparently my daughter has chosen to ignore the recent Bumbo seat safety recall. I found this in the living room today: How do I tell her that the sunglasses won’t…
Impromptu driving range
For someone who loves golf and entrepreneurism as much as me, I thought this was impressive: While waiting in line for a Moth StorySLAM last week in SoHo, I watched…
The lowest forms of human communication
The following are the four lowest forms of human communication, in no specific order. I’m willing to consider additions to the list, so please feel free to offer me your…
First haircut accomplished.
After allowing our daughter’s hair to grow past her waist, my wife and I decided that it was time for my daughter’s first haircut. We expected it to go poorly.…
This is not supposed to be a complicated game.
My daughter doesn’t understand tag. She thinks that the person who is “It” is the one who is supposed to be chased. She points her finger at me, shouts, “You’re…
Alex Pareene’s takedown of Andy Borowitz’s humor in Salon is a joke.
Alex Pareene wrote a take down of humorist Andy Borowitz that I found so infantile that I felt obliged to write a take down of his take down here, even…
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