Archive for April 2013
What are the chances that my wife will allow me to install these throughout the house?
Girl on the edge
My daughter teaches me something new every day. Today she reminded me that if given the opportunity to walk on the sidewalk or the more precarious curbing, the curbing is always much more fun. We sometimes forget these little things as adults. We must remember to look to our children for these reminders lest become…
Read More“Come out! Come out! Wherever you are!”
I wonder if my librarian and bookseller friends ever use this strategy when attempting to locate a wayward book on a shelf:
Read MoreA toddler bikini? I’m think I’m okay with that. A poorly written defense of the toddler bikini? I take great umbrage.
I did not like this piece by Jessica Grose in The Daily Beast defending the toddler bikini. I don’t like it at all. I’m not quite sure how I feel about toddler bikinis. Honestly, I think I agree with Grose on the issue for the most part, but I don’t like her argument one bit.…
Read MoreDead boys sitting beside a pond
This is a 1929 postcard of the original Protestant Cathedral at Yawgoog Scout Reservation on Wincheck Pond’s Thrush Cove, courtesy of The Story of the Yawgoog Trails. I love this photo. The site of the Protestant Cathedral at Yawgoog is one of my favorite places on the planet. But my heart also aches while looking…
Read MoreSpeak Up storyteller: Plato Karafelis
Less than two weeks before our inaugural Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. May 4 at 7:00 PM. Admission is free. If you plan on attending, please go to our Facebook invite page and let us know to help with the head count. Today I’m proud to introduce our sixth…
Read MoreI can’t spell “Slow down.”
My four year-old daughter shocked me today by spelling the words “stop” and “go” on the way to school. “But Dad!” she yelled. “I can’t spell slow down. It’s so frustrating.” I thought stop and go were pretty impressive.
Read MoreA book about sex that I should’ve written.
The Daily Beast reports on a new book, The Newlywed’s Guide to Physical Intimacy, available in stores soon: A new sex guide to be published in Hebrew aims at teaching orthodox Jews the basics of sex. How basic? The book goes as far as outlining the anatomical differences between males and females. The author, Dr.…
Read MoreI was supposed to be writing…
…but fifteen minutes after my wife left for the park with the kids, I abandoned the laptop and followed. Yes, I failed to meet my daily writing goal. Yes, there is still work to be done on my manuscript. Yes, the problems with the manuscript still plague me. But as you can see, it was…
Read MoreUnscripted Star Wars genius
On this week’s episode of Parks and Recreation, Patton Oswalt guest stars as a resident who invokes a bylaw about citizen filibustering to delay a city council vote. The show’s producers gave Oswalt full creative power for the scene, asking him to simply “ramble a bit about whatever subject he wanted.” And he did —…
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