13 thoughts upon seeing my son trying to be cooler than me.
I walked into the living room and this is what I saw. The thoughts that instantly ran through my mind: Who the hell does he think he is? This…
My daughter wished me luck before my most recent Moth GrandSLAM performance then promptly retracted it.
I received this incredibly sweet but slightly parroted message from my kids just before I took the stage in Brooklyn to compete in my tenth Moth GrandSLAM last week. When…
The fallacy of private criticism and the mistake teachers often make when assigning consequences
There is a phrase that has become popular in teaching: Praise in public. Punish (or criticize) in private. I think this depends upon a lot of factors, and especially the…
Novelist Jose Saramago quit writing in 1953. Part of me wants to reach back in time and hug him. The other part wants to smack him.
Nobel Prize winning novelist José Saramago submitted the manuscript of Skylight – his first – to a Lisbon publisher in 1953. Receiving no response, Saramago gave up fiction altogether. His wife…
The blend of happiness and sadness, pride and envy of the working day is easy on some days. Impossibly hard on others. Also, my son needs to get himself a job.
It’s not uncommon to hear about my wife’s day home with our son or the times that they have spent with friends at a coffee shop or a playground or…
It took this couple 8 years to say “I love you” to each other. It took my wife slightly less time to say it to me.
From This American Life, the insanity of a couple happily together for eight years having never said “I love you” and never spoken about its absence. For the record –…
In the unlikely event that my books, films, and musicals don’t make me a wealthy man, I have a back-up plan more than 350 people strong.
Theologian Adam Clarke once said: “The old proverb about having too many irons in the fire is an abominable old lie. Have all in, shovel, tongs, and poker.” I couldn’t…
There is no female counterpart to the word “guys,” and that is a tragedy.
One of college supervisors’ favorite critiques of student-teachers is their use of the word “guys” when addressing the entire class, claiming that the word is gender specific and therefore inappropriate.…
In the words of Budo…
A screen shot of a highlighted section of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, posted by a reader. Seriously, there are no better people in the world than readers. And especially…
Best compliment of my life
I received the greatest compliment of my life yesterday when my daughter, Clara, told my wife, “Mommy, thank you for marrying the funnest guy in the whole world.” I got…
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