Failing as a father
Me: "Clara, do you have to go potty?" Daughter: "No, that's not my potty dance. That's my silly-willy dance. Can't you tell the difference?" Me: “I didn’t know you have…
The Pope and an old lady in parking lot
On Saturday morning an older woman spotted me wearing gym shorts in a parking lot and said, “Put some pants on! Who do you think you are?” As with all…
Best tweet ever
A reader from parts unknown tweeted this yesterday and made my heart soar: I miss my book "The memoirs of an imaginary friend" ....whoever who stole it ... i pray…
I split my pants EIGHT YEARS AGO. Strangers are still talking about it.
Not surprising: My wife knew the people sitting behind us at dinner last night. She’s knows everyone. Surprising: One of the women in the party asked if I was the…
Look! An airplane! Amazing! Also the Toyota Camry you just plowed into.
It’s clever. Genius, even. But I worry about the kind of interactive billboard that distracts the driver’s eyes from the road any longer than necessary. Oy. I sound like an…
Juicing is dumb. But I didn’t say it.
This may come as a surprise, but every so often, I don’t write something in fear that it may offend readers. I know. Based upon some of the things that…
Lessons learned from 4 years of parenting
Two years ago, when my daughter was two, I created a list of lessons that I had learned from two years of parenting. Two years and an additional child later,…
My son’s first steps (and a gentle shove)
My son took his first steps yesterday. We managed to capture a few of them on video. A day later, I still get goose bumps just thinking about it. In…
Verbal sparring 101: Acts of extreme self-flagellation are very useful
At the end of the previous school year, a colleague was upset with me for my failure to strictly comply to a policy related to her department. When she called…
How many male authors, after speaking brilliantly about writing and literature, have been asked publicly about their clothes?” I have an answer, but I suspect that some of you will want to chop my head off for it.
Author M. Molly Backes recently asked the following question on Twitter: @mollybackes: How many male authors, after speaking brilliantly for an hour about writing and literature, have been asked publicly…
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