So 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.…
“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,…
The 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…
My 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…
Staging 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…
The 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…
A 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,
Sometimes 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."
13 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…
Be calm.
A small suggestion:Try to be a calming influence on the world. There are already enough people in the world doing the opposite. Constantly asserting how harried, all consuming, and fast paced our…
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