From a piece in TIME: A new survey commissioned by ChristianMingle.com and JDate.com says that when out with a potential love interest, 69% of singles have absolutely no idea if…
I receive many requests asking me how I seem to accomplish so much in such a short period of time. People who know me well would be more than willing…
I told my four-year-old daughter I didn’t have to work because it was Martin Luther King Day. “That’s a day when we celebrate the life of a man named Martin…
In March of 2012 I wrote a post about the important role that my hometown library played for me when I was a child. As a person who grew up…
Slate’s Justin Peters argues that handicapped parking fraud is one of the jerkiest crimes imaginable. I agree. My evil stepfather didn’t teach me much and demonstrated little by way of…
When I was a boy, I would hide in the dryer when playing hide-and-go-seek. Occasionally my father would start the dryer, sending me for a warm tumble. It was the…
I’ve never wanted to be anyone but me. Ever. Jimmy Fallon may be the one exception.
The following is a story that I told at a Moth StorySLAM at Villa Victoria in Boston in August of last year. The theme of the night was Summer. I…
My daughter has started wearing her bike helmet in the house, sometimes when scootering and sometimes when simply playing with her toys, watching television or coloring. There have been days…
Booktopia, the largest bookstore in all of Australia, is now selling the Matthew Green and Matthew Dicks versions of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend side by side. As the reader…
