Three sentences that everyone should say more often
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I have many flaws. In fact, I list them annually. The 2015 list is 35 items long. But here’s something in…
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I have many flaws. In fact, I list them annually. The 2015 list is 35 items long. But here’s something in…
My daughter found these emerging from the dead grass and stray leaves of the front yard. She informs me that they are crocuses. It’s amazing what my kindergarten daughter…
My friend, Bengi, used to play a game with me in which he’d try to find someone in the world I would rather be than myself. We were 19 at…
Sometime next week, this blog and my entire website will migrate to a new platform. I have built a new website and spent the last month duplicating content on it…
My daughter had a tantrum this weekend when she was told she had to try to use the bathroom before leaving the house. Amongst her complaints: There's nothing to do…
A few observations from yesterday’s TEDxBU talk at Boston University. 1. I will never understand what possesses organizers like Ben Lawson and Salma Yehia to give up hundreds of hours…
Connecticut recently opened CTfastrak, a dedicated bus-only roadway, with stations stretching from Hartford to New Britain. The construction of this roadway and these stations has been underway for as long…
A Walkerton, Indiana, pizza shop is the state’s first business to declare it will not service gay weddings after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was signed into law last week.…
Our six-year-old daughter wants another American Girl doll. Given the price of these dolls, we said no. Her grandparents bought her the first doll, and her aunt and uncle gave…