Archive for February 2022

Charlie took a cereal box and made me a pencil holder shaped like a toilet. Pencils are kept in the taller section (the toilet tank). Erasers in the toilet itself. The lid of the toilet even goes up and down. “Number 2 pencils, only, Dad,” he said. “Get it? Number 2?” I got it. How…

A list of my worst movie deaths… the ones that still haunt me: Volcano (1997): A rescue worker carrying an injured man on his shoulders leaps from a subway train into lava so he can toss the injured man to safety and then slowly melts to death in front of his friends. Jack Reacher (2012):…

Want to see one of the best commercials – and possibly one of the best stories – I have ever seen? Check out this  incredible, four minute commercial for Norway’s postal service, which uses vignettes so brilliantly to tell the full, complete, and surprising story of a man over the course of several years. The…

A Dear Prudence advice seeker wrote: “I got married just before Christmas and am hoping to be divorced or annulled by the end of January. Obviously, that wasn’t the plan originally…” The woman explained that when it came to her wedding, the only hard-and-fast rule was that her future husband not rub cake in her…

People who say they are “so done with this pandemic” (a phrase I’ve been hearing a lot lately in conjunction with arguments to remove mask mandates, end vaccine mandates, and eliminate other forms of virus mitigation) would’ve been utterly useless to our country in 1943. Two years into World War II. Another two years before…

I’ve completed season 1 of Ted Lasso. Here are my thoughts about the last few episodes and the season as a whole. Again, spoilers ahead if you are one of the three other Americans who haven’t seen the show: ______________________________________ I still believe this show was ideal for release during the pandemic. Though I think…

Every month I report the progress of my yearly goals in order to monitor progress (or the lack thereof) and hold myself accountable.   The following are the result from January 2022. PERSONAL FITNESS 1. Don’t die. Alive and kicking. Recovered from COVID-19. Recovered from surgery. Still don’t have any feeling in my upper left…