Clara and Elvis
Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road" is playing. I'm sitting in front of my computer, listening and writing. Clara enters the room and says, "Dad, is this Elvis Presley?" "Elvis?" I shout.…
Where were you when? (Revised)
I wrote this about a year ago and have since added to the list based upon reader feedback and recent events. _________________________________________ I was born after Kennedy's assassination, so I'm…
Unsettling second generation
It's getting stranger by the day. I taught the uncle of one of my current fifth grade students back when he was in fifth grade. I also taught…
Pinewood Derby disappointment
It was a tough Saturday for Charlie. He raced in his first Pinewood Derby, a contest by which Cub Scouts transform a block of wood into a racing car and…
Jalloul Montacer on managing people (and teaching kids)
Back in 1997, I was managing a McDonald's restaurant in Hartford while attending Trinity College and the University of Saint Joseph. The manager who hired me, a man named Fred,…
Mike Pence is still not a good person
On Saturday, in a speech to the Federalist Society, former Vice President Mike Pence stated that “President Trump is wrong, I had no right to overturn the election.” This statement…
My new toilet
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.…
Worst death on film
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…
When Harry Met Santa
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…
Cake in face
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…
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