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…
Clara’s sixth birthday. Make it stop.
My little girl turned six last week. She seems so old. Time hasn’t exactly flown by. I write to my daughter everyday, so perhaps that allows me to mark time…
Death bed regrets revisited: 2015
Four years ago, I responded to a list of the most frequent death bed regrets of the dying by indicating that I didn’t think any of them would be mine.…
Poetry memorization need not be boring or a waste of time. I have used it to make a woman swoon (possibly) and enact one of my greatest pranks of all time against a fellow teacher.
Mike Chasar of Poetry Magazine writes about the lost art of poetry memorization. While it’s true that the academic demand to memorize poetry has all but disappeared from the American…
Not nearly the late bloomer that his Daddy was
I didn’t dance with a girl until I was 15 years-old at the sophomore semi-formal. My son is getting a ridiculously early start.
The moment for which every author longs, experienced by my wife.
My wife was checking out books at the library when a woman stepped up beside her and handed Unexpectedly, Milo to the adjacent librarian. “That’s my husband’s book,” Elysha said.…
Sleeping with goats on The Gist
I had the pleasure of appearing on The Gist this week. Host Mike Pesca interrogated me about my life story, and we talked about how you can take a life…
What’s the word for this feeling?
The Germans have a word for everything (schadenfreude is one of my favorites), so what is the German word for the sadness that suddenly befalls a child when he realizes…
My daughter is failing to follow in her father’s footsteps, and I am both thrilled and mystified.
I think back on the terrible way that I treated my sister through much of our childhood – and especially when she was very little – and then I see…
The tragedy of the philtrum: Join me in elevating it to its proper status in the American lexicon.
The philtrum is the space on your face between your nose and your mouth. It’s that vertical groove that drops from the nose and to the lips. It’s the place…
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