The career of an author is not all angst and loneliness. Some of the time.
I am not a starry-eyed author. I expect little from my publishing career. When I published my first novel, Something Missing, in 2009, I was not under the illusion that…
Little biker dude
He can’t pedal yet (or even reach the pedals), but that isn’t stopping him from loving his tricycle. We may have a future biker on our hands.
I want credit for not being a jerk. Is that too much to ask?
I am known amongst my friends for my tendency to take credit (and sometimes demand it) for exercising restraint. A person irritates or annoys me, and rather than firing off…
My daughter’s inaccurate self portrait
I love it, but I have to say, it doesn’t look anything like her.
Marital advice courtesy of a Moth StorySLAM victory
A friend and I attended The Moth’s StorySLAM at the Bitter End last night. He’s about 15 years younger than me, and while we waited in line outside the club,…
A recap of this weekend’s Speak Up event, plus an update on the future of Speak Up
Thanks to everyone who came out to Speak Up on Saturday night. The event was an enormous success, with an enthusiastic, standing-room only audience of more than 200 people. Real…
She’s in preschool and already criticizing God
As a reluctant atheist, it will be interesting to watch how my children’s belief in God develops. Part of my hopes that they are able to find the faith that…
The kind of love that I was probably too much of a jerk to experience firsthand
I can’t help but wonder if my sister and I ever spent time like this when we were little. I don’t think so, which makes me so sad for me…
The Patriots are proof-positive that perspective is hard, if not impossible
A friend and fellow Patriots season ticket holder sent this to me yesterday in one of the weekly email exchanges that we have prior to every game. I thought it…
Assuming a supervisory role
I told Clara that we needed to find the remote control if she wanted to watch Arthur. “Can you help me find it? I asked. “Sure,” she said. “You go…
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