Archive for June 2015

He might need a few chores to darken his days a bit.

Last night I took the stage at the Music Hall in Williamsburg and won another Moth GrandSLAM.  There are few things more thrilling in my life than having the opportunity to take a Moth stage and tell a story, and Moth audiences are the kindest and most generous audiences in the world. The support and…

I taught my three year-old son to pee on a tree yesterday. We started potty training him late last week, and remarkably, he’s nearly trained already. It took us months to fully train our daughter, Clara, so I feel like the universe is bringing balance to things with Charlie. We are grateful.  I took the…

I don’t get manicures and pedicures. I realize that some men do, but according to an industry study of nail salons in 2013, only 3% of their clients were men. So in general, men don’t get manicures and pedicures.  Like the wearing of makeup, I think it’s kind of crazy that men and women have these…

On the last day of the school year, I receive a lot of cards and letters from students expressing beautiful and hilarious and occasionally insightful messages to me. This year I received a card from a student that said this: “I think the reason you’re such a great teacher is that you are basically the child…

When a boy plays sports well, we say that he is athletic. We refer to him as an athlete or a jock.   We a girl plays sports well, we refer to them as athletes, too, but I also hear them frequently referred to as “sporty.”  I hear my female students refer to themselves and their friends as sporty all the…

My son has been alive for more than 1,000 days. For the last 800 days or so, I have been the one to pluck him from his crib in the morning almost every time without fail. Unless I am out of town or walking the dog at the moment he awakens, which happens rarely, it’s…