I split my pants EIGHT YEARS AGO. Strangers are still talking about it.
Not surprising: My wife knew the people sitting behind us at dinner last night. She’s knows everyone. Surprising: One of the women in the party asked if I was the…
Not surprising: My wife knew the people sitting behind us at dinner last night. She’s knows everyone. Surprising: One of the women in the party asked if I was the…
It’s clever. Genius, even. But I worry about the kind of interactive billboard that distracts the driver’s eyes from the road any longer than necessary. Oy. I sound like an…
This may come as a surprise, but every so often, I don’t write something in fear that it may offend readers. I know. Based upon some of the things that…
Two years ago, when my daughter was two, I created a list of lessons that I had learned from two years of parenting. Two years and an additional child later,…
My son took his first steps yesterday. We managed to capture a few of them on video. A day later, I still get goose bumps just thinking about it. In…
At the end of the previous school year, a colleague was upset with me for my failure to strictly comply to a policy related to her department. When she called…
Author M. Molly Backes recently asked the following question on Twitter: @mollybackes: How many male authors, after speaking brilliantly for an hour about writing and literature, have been asked publicly…
Next time someone older than me complains that my generation (and subsequent generations) lack manners or spend too much time on our phones or don’t save enough money, I’ll say,…
On Saturday, I gave a TED Talk on Creativity and Compassion at Western Connecticut State University. It was an interesting conference that was sponsored by the school’s Center for Compassion,…
I was saddened to hear about the death of Doris Lessing. I read a lot of her work while in college and some of her short stories since then. I…