Archive for July 2014
New rule: Women should not make sweeping generalizations about women.
In listening to the most recent Nerdist Writer’s Panel podcast, the writer and show runner of the television show Trophy Wife, Emily Halpern, was asked if she ever fights with her writing partner during the collaborative process. Her response: We are two women, so we get passive aggressive. One of us may pout, and the…
Read MoreStop the retirement madness. Please.
Could someone please tell Derek Jeter that he can still play and that his retirement is making me feel less like a boy and too much like an adult. While we’re at it, take the guitar away from Bernie Williams and put him back in centerfield. Get Paul O’Neill out of the broadcasting booth and…
Read MoreStarbucks offers me one more reason to love my wife
As a follow-up to yesterday’s list of 99 reasons that I love my wife, I thought I’d add this: My wife likes Starbucks very much. She enjoys Starbucks beverages as much as anyone I know. Despite her devotion to the product, she has never whined for it. Never demanded it. Needed it. Lamented its absence.…
Read MoreI am like a tree in one very specific way, at least according to my daughter.
A few weeks ago, I discovered that my daughter doesn’t think I sleep. Because I am out of bed every day by 4:30 and back in bed well after she has gone to sleep, Clara has never even seen me lying in bed. At the time, I explained to her that I sleep. I just…
Read More99 more reasons that I love Elysha Dicks
Today is our eighth wedding anniversary. Last year I listed 99 reasons that I love my wife. Today, I listed 99 new ones. __________________________ 1. She was not aware of the most recent royal birth until someone told her hours after it had happened 2. She does not play stupid iPhone or Facebook games 3.…
Read MoreThe amazing, astounding Abercrombie adults
There are people standing inside Abercrombie & Fitch stores throughout America at this very moment. They have found their way into its chilled, cologne infused, overly sonorous interior because they want to be there. They choose to be there. I’m not talking about teenage girl fingering a pile of stretchy jeans or the teenage boy…
Read MoreI worry that George R.R. Martin will die before finishing his Song of Fire and Ice series, and yes, that’s not a nice thing to think.
George R.R. Martin is the author of the popular Song of Fire and Ice series which you may know better as Game of Thrones. He’s currently writing the sixth of that was originally going to be seven books in the series, though he recently hinted that there may be an eighth. Martin is 65 years-old.…
Read MoreProductivity tip #8: A succinct and accurate description of my work flow
In the past month, three people have asked me to describe my work flow. I wasn’t sure what to say at first (because I honestly still don’t understand the question), but I’ve settled on an answer: My work flow? I’m busy getting things done while others are pondering their work flow. Nothing is ever as…
Read MoreNo one talks baby off the hill
For about 15 minutes, my daughter had no interest in my cousin’s wedding. While the bride and groom danced, she opted to sit on the side of a hill and pout, as five year-old children are wont to do from time to time. Then this little boy went over to her and chatted with her…
Read MoreThe exuberance of elderly warriors
One of the students in my writing camp introduced me to this beautiful, amazing, perfect video. I can’t recommend this enough. Sigur Rós – Hoppípolla from sigur rós on Vimeo.
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