Marlow Stern of The Daily Beast - in writing about Bill Maher's recent criticism of the charge of battery against's Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, says: “Maher’s defense of Lewandowski…
Back in January, Mike Pesca of Slate's The Gist discussed some of his favorite sentences of 2015. When Pesca attributed the sentence to someone., I included the attribution. Bill Raftery on…
On the same day that my wife told me that she wanted to be a fashion designer when she was a little girl but doesn't have that same passion or…
I've heard this idiom spoken both ways:"Play your cards close to the vest.""Play your cards close to the chest."So I wondered: Which of these is correct?The answer: Both.There is no…
My column in the spring 2016 edition of Seasons is now available online.I write "Last Word," the humor column on the back page of the magazine. This month I write…
Two years ago I posted a list of 9 things that I have never done that most people in the world have tried at least once. Today I add a tenth…
It's just a sheet spread over his crib, but it makes him so happy. There's so much joy and wonder in this simple thing. It's an important reminder to me…
One of my wife's friends told me yesterday that she reads this blog daily and feels like she has an oddly intimate relationship with me as a result.Then she said…
Last week I wrote that the two greatest super powers of all time are immortality and time travel, with teleportation coming in a possible, albeit distant third.I'd like to offer…
My kids are currently watching large amounts of the television show The Octonauts.They also own many Octonauts toys.I tend to avoid watching these shows with my kids, and when I…
