My son doesn’t give a damn about my deadlines.
It was early in the morning. I was trying to finish a book. I needed some peace and quiet. I got this instead. And it was great.
It would be amazing if my daughter became a firefighter when she grew up. My wife may disagree slightly.
My wife and I differ in opinion on so few things. She’s not a fan of Meatloaf (the musician, not the delicious meat product), but that’s not a difference of…
Hunter Thompson once retyped The Great Gatsby just to feel what it was like to write a great novel. What a stupid waste of time.
Author Hunter Thompson once retyped The Great Gatsby just to feel what it was like to write a great novel. This fact is often lauded as a demonstration of his…
How I Function on Less Than 6 Hours of Sleep (and how you could, too)
Alexandra Damsker, CEO of Kira’s Kiss Desserts, explains how she is able to function on less than six hours of sleep.As a person who also sleeps less than six hours…
No electricity. No touch screen. No Internet connection. Just centrifugal force and joy.
The joy that a child can experience in a toy as simple as a top is something to behold. Or even a stick on a ribbon, operating on similar…
Still in love
Watching and listening to my children talk and play together is probably my favorite thing in the world at this moment.
A bungled MVP presentation demonstrates a truth about storytelling. Also, I’m available for hire, Chevy. And you need me. Desperately.
As part of Speak Up, our Hartford-based storytelling organization, my wife and I teach storytelling and public speaking to large classes, small groups, and individual storytellers. After watching the Chevrolet’s…
My son wants attention. Just not from me. And it’s starting to hurt a little.
Almost every morning for the past year or more, my son has awoken from sleep and called for his mother. “Mommy!” He will shout this word for as long as…
The vastly underutilized “You told me so.”
As I’ve made clear, I am an enormous fan of the “I told you so,” going to far as to have an “I told you do” calendar. What I would…
The two days that I will not miss my children and pets one bit
Someday, far into the future, there will be no children and no pets running around our home. I will be deeply saddened by this. Except on the mornings of Daylight…
