At a dinner with his players, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta secretly hired a team of professional pickpockets. The sleight-of-hand artists went around the tables, stealing phones and wallets from an…
The weather Gods have cooperated and given me a sunny, 70-degree day tomorrow, which means I can complete my Eagle Scout project after waiting 36 years. I'm very excited. Town…
"The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." This is a quote I like a…
Elysha, some friends, and I saw David Sedaris perform last night at The Bushnell. We've seen Sedaris perform before, and as we've come to expect, he was excellent. I've read…
Duke Ellington once said, "I don't need more time; I need a deadline.” If you make things, you almost certainly understand this.
Nothing makes me so simultaneously happy and sad as a memorial bench placed in a perfect spot by people who loved a person who is no more. It's a beautiful…
For my entire life, I have been ordering burgers from restaurants and asking them to hold their special sauce because — and I know this sounds obvious — I don't…
While I was in Ottowa, I saw a fantastic memorial to women's suffrage, which reminded me: American women have only been allowed to vote for 104 years. Barely more than…
Elysha and I walked halfway across the Golden Gate Bridge last weekend. On the way back, I heard someone say: "Not everyone can say they walked across the Golden Gate.…
This is brilliant. It's also a damn tragedy that it needs to exist. It should also be acknowledged that more than 99% of the time, the red pen is used…
