Design yourself
NPR’s Robert Krulwich delivered a commencement address at Maine's College of the Atlantic that I liked a lot. In all honestly, his delivery isn’t great. His head is down a…
My wife cannot abide by cheating, even if you could be dead tomorrow.
A cheater has been unearthed. A young Scrabble player was kicked out of the national championship in Florida on Tuesday after being caught hiding blank tiles. A player at a…
Paleontologist extraordinaire
My daughter is slowly developing into an honest-to-goodness dinosaur expert.
I am capable of making serious financial and medical decisions while I am sleepwalking. That, my friends, is productivity.
From the National Sleep Foundation’s website on sleepwalking: It is a misconception, though, that it is important to not wake up a sleepwalker. In fact, it could be quite dangerous…
I already wrote this story.
TIME magazine reports on a funeral home in South Carolina will soon offer Starbucks coffee, lattes and free Wi-Fi for those grieving over their loved ones. Having written an entire…
Manipulative. Indecisive. Transparent.
The first words out of my three year old daughter yesterday morning as I plucked her from the crib: Clara: Daddy, I have a cold. I can’t go to school…
Stop delaying the inevitable. Same-sex marriage is going to happen. Don’t be left standing with the ignorant and bigoted few.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant recently criticized a predominantly white church in his state for refusing to allow a black couple to wed in its sanctuary because they were “uncomfortable with…
How to sleep train your child
This post is being written by request. I say this because every time I write a post that implies that I know something about parenting, I receive a mixed bag…
