It’s not backwards. It’s fashion forward.
My daughter believes that shirts are designed to be worn whatever way she wants. This shirt, for example, was designed by the manufacturer so that the dog would be on…
Please settle a bet between my wife and me: Did you ever walked the railroad tracks at least once as a child?
Yesterday, I wondered aloud how the railroad companies keep snow off the tracks. It turns out that they use plows attached to train engines to clear the tracks. Before I…
J.Crew Crew
Some brilliant person has taken the J.Crew catalog and used the images to create three minute narratives that are both funny and, in the words of one commenter, “de-mythologize the…
I love it when deserving people are made to look stupid.
My “novel in the drawer” (the book I wrote two years ago and am keeping in reserve for a rainy day) is the story of a vigilante of sorts who…
A future protagonist, perhaps.
This odd and fascinating man, who spent untold hours creating a device to remove the filling from an Oreo cookie, is just the kind of person you might find in…
Don’t call yourself old
Yesterday I heard a friend who is about my age say, “Kids today are just so disrespectful.” I laughed. I have yet to meet a student more disrespectful than my…
Speak Up: True Stories. Real People.
Back in January, I announced our intention to launch a local storytelling series here in Connecticut, modeled loosely after The Moth, the organization in New York City that hosts the…
Best basketball shot ever
The thing I like best about this amazing, incredible, unbelievable, never-to-be-duplicated basketball shot is that it only happens because an opposing player (our antagonist) is overconfident in his supposed victory…
The Matthew Dicks Treatise on Humility
When it comes to humility, I try to abide by these five rules: Be confident about the things that you know and do well. People want to know and believe…
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