Collaboration is great. Right?
I teach my students to collaborate. I believe that collaboration is a good and useful and a productive means of getting things done. It's good for people and the world…
Put stuff on the Internet and watch what happens
You should write. Regardless of your self-perceived skill or experience, you should absolutely write stuff and stick it on the Internet. This is what I have been doing for more…
Random chairs in restrooms make me uncomfortable. Justifiably so. Right?
I will never understand why a restaurant would put a random chair like this in their restroom. It serves no purpose other than to make me feel awkward and nervous and…
Why should I experience unnecessary minor pain? Because I choose not to be soft.
In a piece entitled Pain Is Silly! Be Prepared With Your Own Mini-Pharmacy, Slate's Mark Joseph Stern writes: “I live in the 21st century. Why should I have to experience minor…
Professional Mini Golf: Competitive, cutthroat, and quirky?
This is not meant at a slight in any way, but it strikes me that the men and women who play professional mini golf would fit perfectly into any one…
Wardrobe malfunction
Charlie: Dad, you took off my pajamas, and then you put on other pajamas.Me: Those are pajamas?Charlie: Where's Mom?
Great first sentences (and an analysis of the first sentences of my own novels)
I have no definitive favorite first line of a novel, though I am partial to the first line of Slaughterhouse Five:"All this happened, more or less."Also, Fahrenheit 451: "It was a…
“Yeah, but…”
I despise these two words. It's not that I don't say them, but when I hear myself saying them, I despise myself. I remind myself of how stupid I sound. I'll…
Quite possibly Bruce Springsteen’s most brilliant and perfect observation ever
Bruce Springsteen on Fresh Air: “Most people’s stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography. They’re trying to create something that solves a series…
Unfair assumption #27: People who object to mothers breast-feeding in public are freakish, worthless prudes and more
It's crazy that some people - mostly men - object to women breastfeeding in public.Some of these people are downright despicable about it, making passive-aggressive comments to these mothers or aggressively…
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