Archive for June 2016
Best graduation cap ever
I’m admittedly biased, but still…
Read MoreSo much beauty in just two minutes of video. You must see.
Many thanks to my friend, Catherine Burns, for posting this. Sadly, my existential terror doesn’t allow me to embrace this idea as fully as I’d like, but I wish I could. It’s fantastic.
Read More“Third verse same as the first” is stupid and annoying
I’m fond of Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope You Dance.” That is, I’m fond of about two-thirds of the song. Then Womack repeats the first verse as the third verse, and my fondness is gone. This annoys the hell out of me, and though it’s not done all that often, it’s still done too much. As…
Read MoreThe world’s first decent veggie burger. Not really because it’s still a veggie burger, but better.
I discovered that my school serves a veggie burger with bacon. It may sound counterintuitive, but unless you are eating a veggie burger because you are someone who doesn’t eat meat for ethical reasons, this makes so much sense. A healthier burger option, made more palatable by a slice or two of bacon. It still…
Read MoreMy son has become a non-stop death machine.
Ever since our cat, Owen, died last month, my four year-old son Charlie has been obsessed with death. Specifically his own death. This has not been good for me, given that I am obsessed about my own death more than anyone else on the planet. My mortality is something that I consider on a (no exaggeration)…
Read MoreStaging your home for sale is stupid and self-destructive. Kind of like lipstick. We must end the insanity.
My friends are selling their home. Moving away. It’s miserable. As a result, they are in the process of showing their home to would-be buyers, and part of that process is staging the home. Flowers on tables. Real and/or plastic fruit in bowls. Flowers on a side table. A second set of towels to replace the…
Read MoreThe likelihood that your gossip and behind-the-back cruelty will be exposed, expressed in percentages
If you say something despicable or underhanded behind the back of a family member, there is a 85% chance that your words will find their way into the ears of that family member. If you say something despicable or underhanded behind the back of a colleague, there is a 75% chance that your words will…
Read MoreA threat of violence, some moments of real sweetness, and a serious fear of hoes.
A teacher found this on the floor after class in a middle school:A relationship contract between 8th graders The boy signed it,
Read MoreSometimes I think I’m living in a movie
I look across the room, see these two kids, and think, “It’s as if they are trying to be as cinematic as possible.”
Read More13 Rules for an Effective (and Perhaps Even Inspiring) Commencement Address
I have been listening to a lot of commencement addresses over the past two weeks, and I’ve been a listener of commencement addresses for a long time. NPR’s The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever, with more than 350 speeches going back to 1774, is a good place to start. Many have videos of the speeches, and…
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