Outsourcing my New Year’s resolutions again: Would you like to play a role?
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I take my goal setting and New Year’s resolutions very seriously. Except of course, for the months…
Charity sucks. At least in this instance.
There was once a device marketed to housewives that would charge anyone who wanted to ring the doorbell 10 cents as a mean of reducing the number of traveling salesmen…
Lessons from my third Moth victory
On Thursday night I was fortunate enough to win my third Moth StorySLAM of my storytelling career at The Bitter End in New York City. The theme of the night…
Black and gross
My daughter told me that she was asked to try “gross food” at school today. “Gross food, Daddy. Black food. Black, gross food. Black and gross.” I was admittedly concerned…
My most useless super power
In addition to my fairly useful super powers is one that is no less extraordinary but useless. Whenever I wake up in the middle of the night, for whatever reason,…
Woodstock’s quandary
Is Woodstock a figure of adoration or a bird in a hell of a lot of trouble? My daughter refused to explain.
Food Nazis
In the post recent post on our brother-sister blog, 107 Federal Street, Kelli Elizabeth writes about living under the culinary version of the Third Reich.
Fat employees receive fewer benefits at Whole Foods
There are a lot of problems with Whole Foods’ policy of awarding larger discounts to employees with lower blood pressure, cholesterol and BMI. There is the issue of privacy, of…
Charlie Brown’s close encounter
My three-year old daughter is playing in the other room. I just heard her say, "Charlie Brown, take me to your leader." Snoopy? Lucy? Charles Schultz?
Strangest Christmas behavior ever. Right?
It’s 9:00 AM on Christmas morning. Things are not going as expected. After opening a few presents, including three books I had to read aloud before we could continue unwrapping,…
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