The twenty-first century is such a tough time to be alive.
A piece by Drake Baer in Fast Company entitled Slacking At Work Is A Controversial Productivity Tool--So Is There A Better Way? opens with this sentence: More and more of…
What motivates me?
Spite A desire to impress my wife (and before that, the desire to impress girls) The fear of poverty The need to create something that will last beyond my lifetime…
Government with a splash of humor
The Illinois board of tourism created this video in honor of Abraham Lincoln and the attention he will be receiving at the Academy Awards this evening as a result of…
A easy-to-implement, nearly-free, must-steal idea for libraries and bookstores everywhere: Blind Date with a Book
On Thursday I had the honor of speaking to a large and enthusiastic audience at the Townsend Public Library in Townsend, Massachusetts. MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND was chosen for…
A demanding public
A kind but somewhat questionable reader wrote to me today and said: Please please please tell me you have written some more books - or at least one!!!!! I’m strongly…
The postnuptial agreement: A new method of marital negotiation. An even better indicator of people who need to repeat kindergarten.
My wife and I almost never fight. We don't even bicker. She says it's because we're both easygoing people. I thought it had something to do with love. Either way,…
My wife’s only parenting blunder involves the potentially hazardous use of scissors.
My wife is quite nearly a perfect mother. She worries a little more than is necessary, but this appears to be a prerequisite to mothering, and her car is littered…
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