Can we all agree that parents who actively oppose their child's interracial, inter-religious, or same sex marriage are awful people? They are still mothers and father, perhaps still worthy of love…
When we put our son, Charlie, to bed each night, he complains about having to go to sleep. He refers to it as a "big sleep.""Mommy, it's going to be…
I took my daughter on the Essex Steam Train's North Pole Express last night.For those of you unfamiliar, The Essex Steam Train is a 100 year-old functioning steam train and…
The following is a story that I told at a Moth GrandSLAM at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA in March of 2015. The theme of the night was Once in…
Every Christmas, I take inventory of the holiday gifts that my wife gives me.Some people wish for cashmere sweaters, brand new video game systems, stylish watches, and jewelry. My hope…
Ashley Feinberg at Gawker received received an unusual email from the Bush campaign last week.In exchange for $25, Bush promised to stop sending email to supporters on his mailing list…
Did you know that watermelon is considered a fruit but also a vegetable since it belongs to the gourd family? Did you also know that people who insist on proliferating…
In this holiday season, please remember this one important fact when choosing a gift for a friend or loved one:Giving your loved one the gift of a jigsaw puzzle is…
I'm thrilled to have a story featured on The Moth Radio Hour and Moth podcast this week. It's a holiday story about my car accident two days before Christmas when I…
One of my lifelong ambitions is to make it into Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations or the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. In an effort to assist the editors of that admirable tome,…
