Which would you prefer: The super supportive or hyper-critical spouse?
My wife and I attended a storytelling performance recently. A guy in his late twenties took the stage and told a story. He made great efforts to be funny but…
Elaborate prom proposals are happening. Promposals, they call them. They are stupid.
I am the veteran of the prom season. In my youth, I attended a total of seven proms. I attended both my junior and senior proms with my high school…
I use the word “bigot” instead of “homophobic.” You should, too. Here’s why.
A reader noted my tendency to use the words bigot and bigotry in lieu of homophobia or homophobic when describing an idiot who is prejudiced against or hates homosexuals. Observant…
The key to my heart is through a book.
I stepped out of my son’s room for a moment. He was playing with some train tracks and seemed completely content. When I opened the door the minute later, I…
Breakfast and a book
While my wife made breakfast, my son grabbed a book. She plopped him in a chair close by so he could flip through the pages under her watchful eye. A…
Best question of the week
On our way to Boston, we passed by a minivan on the Mass Pike. My wife looked over at the van and then back at me. “Do you think that…
Network television turns a baseball fan into the butt of a joke. Is this okay?
I’m torn. On the one hand, I love this video. There is nothing better than watching a muscle-bound man struggle with someone so inconsequential. All those hours spent lifting iron…
Unfair assumption #13: A person who says that so-and-so “has agency” was enrolled in far too many liberal arts classes.
A person who says that so-and-so “has agency” was enrolled in far too many liberal arts classes (and probably too many feminist literary criticism classes) as a college student.
I applied for BeautifulPeople.com, a social network for only the most beautiful of people. Here are the results of the voting.
I read about the social network BeautifulPeople.com in a piece in TIME magazine. BeautifulPeople was originally launched as a dating site that billed itself as “an exclusively beautiful community.” It…
Haunted, but the ghost is apparently a reader, so it’s okay.
It would seem that we have a ghost in our house who enjoys books just as much as my son.
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