Elysha, the kids, and I watched the film "What About Bob?" last night. Clara left halfway through, choosing to read a book rather than finishing the movie. Charlie stuck it…

Last week, I advised someone to zig while others are zagging. It's advice that I give often. Actually, someone reported to me just yesterday that they took this advice and…

Earlier in the week, I mentioned that there is still glass in my forehead after a 1988 car accident that sent me through a windshield forehead first. I want to…

I'd've. That's a word. Not in the dictionary, but I stumbled upon it while reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to the family last night. A double-contraction for…

I celebrated my birthday yesterday, and like everyone who has celebrated a birthday in the United States since around March 12, 2020 (except for the selfish, pigheaded idiots), I was…

On December 23, 1988, I was in a head-on collision in my mother's 1976 Datsun B-210. I was driving through Mendon, Massachusetts, on a snowy afternoon when my car slid…

Last week, as Charlie and I were reading about Thomas Hooker, founder of the Connecticut colony, he said: "Thomas Hooker has a really weird name." So said the boy who…

Back in 2017, a judge in Hawaii ordered a defendant to write more than 140 “nice” things about his ex-girlfriend after he violated a protection order. “For every nasty thing…

As you may know, I maintain an "I told you so" calendar as a part of my Google calendar. When you tell me that the Patriots will finish in last…