How to be uninteresting with fruits and vegetables
Did you know that watermelon is considered both a fruit and a vegetable because it belongs to the gourd family? Did you also know that people who insist on proliferating…
Jigsaw puzzles are a terrible, rotten, no good, very bad gift.
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…
I have a story on The Moth Radio Hour and podcast this week!
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…
An essential quote for parents and teachers who are struggling with discipline
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,…
Boy vs. Girl: Episode 7: Babysitters, chivalry and taking out the trash
In the sad and unlikely event that you haven't subscribed to our podcast Boy vs. Girl in the iTunes store or wherever you get your podcasts (Overcast is my personal…
A possible cure for writer’s block
I have thankfully never suffered from writer's block, but if you do, perhaps you could try this innovative means of writing in hopes of curing it: Write naked. I can't…
I’ve switched from PC to Mac. I have six complaints.
About a month ago, I switched from PC to Mac. This was a momentous change for me. Terrifying and frustrating. Like landing on an alien planet. It was also necessary. My…
Tableside preparation of guacamole is stupid. For many reasons.
I don't like avocados. As a result, I also don't like guacamole. So perhaps the following statements are tinged with bias. Or perhaps I am more objective about this matter…
Connor the Unicorn is missing. It’s freakin’ annoying.
My daughter has a whole host of imaginary friends, whom she calls "pretend friends." We hear about them a lot less than we did a couple of years ago, but…
Goals for 2016: Tell me what to do.
There are about two weeks left in the year, so it's time for me to begin deciding upon goals for 2016. For the last four years, I have posted my…
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