Mystery machine
The Scooby-Doo gang was pretty presumptuous to name their van The Mystery Machine. I realize they encountered an uncanny and irrational number of criminals trying to cover up crimes with…
Teaching is full of unexpected surprises
One billion years ago, I taught a third grader named Kaity to multiply. Last night, as Elysha and I were leaving for a Moth StorySLAM in Somerville, I asked Kaity,…
TEDx Pomfret: It’s Not the Curriculum
Last year I spoke at a TEDx conference in Pomfret, CT on the subject of education. Specifically, I spoke about what is important and what is not when it comes…
A serious commitment to golf
I've played golf in the rain many times. I've played golf in the snow once. To be fair, it wasn't snowing when we started the round, and the forecast hadn't…
An untimely poop and a blocked toilet lead to magic.
I grew up next door to my grandparents. They owned a small house at the top of a hill on a sprawling piece of farm and forest. My childhood home…
My favorite billboard
The billboard is on Southern Boulevard, one of the only streets that lead directly to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. With Hurricane Irma now battering Florida, my thoughts are with everyone whose…
I am not talented.
I don't believe in talent. I believe in hard work. In speaking to a writer recently about her struggles to get published, I said, "Maybe you should write another book.…
When you tell your girlfriend via text that you wrote her a poem…
... but it's actually the theme to The King of Queens. Brilliant.
A sad, retired, perhaps unstable man
My friend, Rob, retired last year. Like my previously retired friends, Rob has attempted to rub it in with photographs of his endless vacation. But unlike my previously retired friends,…
My son thinks I’m a golfing god
I haven't beaten one of my golfing buddies in well over a year. I've been drastically altering my grip and swing, but I'm also just not as good as the…
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