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…
“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.…
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…
This Playmobil bicycle helmet does not appeal to me, and for good reason.
Two or three years ago, this prototype of a bike helmet would have meant nothing to me. I didn't grow up with Playmobil toys. I wouldn't have even recognized this…
How Poor Were You?
I spent last weekend in the company of Elysha's 94-year-old grandmother. We call her Nana, and I always love speaking to her. In the midst of our chat, I was…
Unfair assumption #26: Adults who drink milk are lunatics
There's nothing wrong with an adult drinking white milk. Nothing at all. Truly. Still, it just seems so wrong to me. Insanity, really.
Sometimes a job is more than a job.
I have been teaching at the same elementary school in West Hartford, CT, since the fall of 1999. The way that this school and its people have become intertwined in…
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