Quora recently asked the question: Would the Lord of the Rings have been more satisfying with a different ending. Specifically, what if the eagles hadn't rescued Frodo and Samwise from…
My wife and I do not fight. It’s not that we are opposed to fighting, and we’re certainly more than happy to argue a point when the time is right,…
The following is a story that I told at a Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works in New York City in July of last year. The theme of the night was…
I love this story. I received an email last week from a librarian in southern Italy. It reads:_________________________ Dear Matthew,We write from a public library of a very small town…
Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, is the one point of light in the middle of darkness between South Korea (on the right) and China (on the left) in this recent…
It just occurred to me: My three closest male friends are not on Facebook. Two have no accounts whatsoever, and the third has an account that he has never used. …
1. Don’t die. I still kick ass at not dying. 2. Lose ten pounds. One pounds gained in February. Oops. 3. Do at least 100 push-ups and 100 sit-ups five…
The pre-gifting of the stuffed unicorn as a reward for the excellent behavior that we expected from my daughter during her recent dentist appointment was a stroke of genius on…
