Einstein was dumb
Not about many things, but about this: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” I’ve always hated this definition. I wouldn’t call it…
My wife’s wedding vows
Last month, in conjunction with our upcoming anniversary, I shared some posts I had written about our wedding in 2006. Those posts originally appeared on a blog that no longer…
Curmudgeonly thinking
I loved this quote from a New York Times opinion piece by Oliver Burkeman, who has a book coming out entitled “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive…
My wedding vows
Last month, in conjunction with our upcoming anniversary, I shared some posts I had written about our wedding in 2006. Those posts originally appeared on a blog that no longer…
My boy!
My father-in-law has somehow made my little boy look a lot older than his smidgen-over two months. I swear he does not look this grownup yet in real life.
Three packages arrived last week. Only one was creepy and sexually inappropriate.
On Friday the first copy of MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND arrived at my door, wrapped beautifully and accompanied by a note from my editor. It was the kind of…
Prepare to cry
I will show this video to my students in hopes that it will have the same effect on them that it had on me: It will remind them how fortunate…
Maybe yoga isn’t such a good idea after all.
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to give yoga an honest try. After reading Lee Anne Finfinger’s The 10 things you’ll do once you start yoga (that have nothing…
Is my extreme honesty hurting myself or helping others?
Last week I posted a revised list of my flaws and shortcomings. It was the third time I have revised and posted the list. You can read about the reason…
My mother soaked me in neurotoxins and endocrine disruptors as a child
When I was a boy, my mother would literally lock me and my brothers an sisters and me out of the house during the summer, only permitting entrance for lunch,…
