Parenting perfection
This really is perfect. The strategy. The tone. The ability to use the strategy almost daily. I love it. I’m not sure it will still apply by the time my…
Is there be anything more tragic than a left handed kid stuck with a right handed baseball glove?
It just occurred to me this week: I am left-handed. I am very clearly left-handed. I have always been left-handed. Yet the first baseball glove my parents bought me as…
The $199.99 Wheelbarrow Sundae: Who is with me?
Mortensen’s is a restaurant and ice cream shop located on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington, CT. Years ago, I stopped at Mortensen’s for dinner with a friend and hadn’t been…
Speak Up storyteller: Matthew Dicks
Just six days until our inaugural Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. We'll sell beer, wine,…
Spamming scumbag of the week: Phone Beauties
Each week, among the many interesting, insightful, and occasionally scathing comments on my blog, I find comments from businesses and/or spammers clever enough to avoid spam-detection technology. I delete these…
Unfair assumption #9: Women who don makeup before heading to the gym are suffering from traumatic brain injury.
Women who don makeup before heading to the gym are suffering from traumatic brain injury. This is truly unfair. Just because someone does something incredibly stupid doesn’t mean they're incredibly…
I wrote a poem. I need a critique. Please help.
I wrote a poem about my son today. I’ve been working on it for three days, including about an hour this morning. I’m ready to hear what people think. Suggestions?…
Ann Coulter is racing me to the finish line. I hope she gets there first.
Some days, I don’t feel like going to the gym. On those days, I think of Ann Coulter. Ann is a decade older than me (even with all that plastic…
Television-free news
In the recent Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent death and apprehension of the alleged bombers, we did not turn on our television once. All of my news came via…
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