I love Slate. I probably read Slate more than anything else on the Internet. But occasionally Slate publishes pieces that amount to nothing more than link bait, and Allison Benedikt’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
