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That is not a chicken, damn it.

In order from right to left, my daughter identified these cardboard cutouts as a ballerina, bones (not bad), a baseball player (close enough for a toddler), a witch and a chicken.   That is not a chicken. That is not even close to a chicken. I told her, but she didn’t buy it. I added…

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Ann Kingman and Michael Kindness

Imagine: You launch a podcast in order to share your passion about books and story with the world. You dedicate your time, money and expertise to the cause. In return, you expect nothing. In fact, you actively reject opportunities to profit from your enterprise. As a result of your time and effort, a community of…

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This may not make her the coolest kid in high school

My three year old daughter specifically requested the song Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini while in the car yesterday. Earlier in the week, when the song Dancing in the Moonlight came on the radio, she raised her fist into the air and shouted, “King Harvest!” followed by “Is he really a king,…

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Bad Internet

The Internet is one of humankind’s greatest achievements. It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without it. Still, I can’t help but think that before the Internet, this sentence, and sentences like it, never existed: Need. Coffee. Now. There’s something to be said for the old days.

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The Nipple Bra is further proof that it wasn’t entirely my parents’ fault.

I once heard a Moth storyteller blame her parents’ failure to meet the minimum requirements of a mother and father on the 1970s. It was a different and inexplicable time in the history of the country, the storyteller explained. A strange and mysterious decade that no one today can quite understand. A time when the…

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A dog ate my book.

MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND had an interesting week. Early in the week, I was contacted by a reader who had borrowed a signed copy of the book from a friend under the condition that it be returned in perfect condition. A few days later her dog ate the book, necessitating an emergency phone call…

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Overstated

My daughter, a possible future geologist, handed me a rock today and told me it was “the shiniest rock in the whole wide world.” It wasn’t. Not even close.

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Worst barcode placement ever

A reader (@jpetroroy) posted this earlier this week. Covering up my name was bad. The choice of letters left behind is just wrong.

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