There was a time in my life when I was homeless. I lived in my car and was unemployed. While this was primarily the result of being arrested and tired…
My two kids, ready for trick-or-treating tonight! Clara is a fairy princess, and Charlie is Max from Where the Wild Things Are, in a costume that my wife made specifically…
On a good day, former New England Patriots and current Washington Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather is a hard-nosed, hard hitting football player. Those days seem few and far between. More…
A question recently asked of Slate’s Dear Prudence: Q. Always Take the Wife's Side?: I'm about to get married and am caught in an argument between my fiancée and my…
I have a piece in Beyond the Margins today about the unexpected (and almost unbelievable) benefits of publishing novels. Enjoy!
There. I said it. This trailer explains my dislike perfectly. Every trope that’s used in this spoof is every reason why I don’t like his films.
Bestselling author Lionel Shriver has been criticized this week for a piece she wrote in The New Republic in which she complains about the amount of publicity and the demands…
This is an excellent reminder about how fortunate we are. I think I’ll show it to my students the next time they complain that the cafeteria has run out of…
Late last summer, a judge in the town of Newport, Tennessee ordered that a 7-month old boy’s name be changed from Messiah to Martin, saying that “it’s a title that…
My wife played with the stroller that my son is pushing as a child. I have nothing like that from my childhood. I have nothing at all from my childhood…