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I’ll be speaking on the panel below alongside RJ Julia Bookseller’s President Roxanne Coady and Books on the Nightstand hosts Ann Kingman and Michael Kindness. If you’re a reader and…
No one wants to see your photos of the sunrise or the sunset.
On Saturday morning, I posted the following to Facebook: At 6:38 this morning the sky turned an orange that I have never seen before. It was as if it was…
Let’s put an end to the Miss America pageant by making anyone who watches it feel small and stupid and uninformed.
John Oliver’s takedown of the Miss America pageant on HBO’s Last Week Tonight was brilliant. The Miss America pageant is admittedly an easy target, but Oliver’s segment is both surgical…
I have never used an em dash. I don’t even know how to make an em dash. But you can still find them in my books.
Noreen Malone of Slate argues against the em dash. The problem with the dash—as you may have noticed!—is that it discourages truly efficient writing. It also—and this might be its…
Beautiful wife. Scolded boy. Molded in plastic.
My wife posted this to Facebook today. It was too good not to share here. ____________________________ I just overheard Charlie in the other room saying, "Sit down! Time out!" I…
This is what happens when you work in the industry for 17 years.
I am working at a wedding tonight as the DJ. Amongst the many people here, I have worked as the DJ at the weddings of: The woman in charge of…
A man shouted at me. Swore at me. My response was not appropriate. Unfortunately.
I pulled alongside the gas pump and shifted my car into park. There was another gas pump just ahead of me, but there was a yellow plastic bag around the…
Daddy is dumb. Mommy is a genius.
I didn’t want to go for a walk. As usual. my wife convinced me otherwise. Had she listened to me, I would’ve never had the joy of watching my children…
This short film presents a situation that is both ridiculous and reality. And that scares the hell out of me.
It’s astounding how rapidly the selfie and social media have interlocked to become a ubiquitous, ingrained, and inexplicably accepted aspect of American culture. Does a film like this awaken people…
My story was featured on The Moth’s podcast this week. I still get goose bumps.
I was thrilled to learn that one of the stories that I told at a Moth StorySLAM in Boston last year was featured on their podcast this week. I’ve seen…
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