“That was the greatest thing I ever saw at school!”
I was standing outside before school, allowing students into the building one class at a time. There were three classes remaining, including my own, when a student asked, “Why do…
Gratitude journal: Firsts
Tonight I am grateful for the many firsts that a child can bring to a parent’s life. As adults, the number of firsts that we experience tend to diminish as…
Traitorous progeny
She’s visiting a farm, populated by at least a dozen different animals, and more importantly, she knows that bees kill me dead. So with all the animals that she could…
Meta
My wife, speaking to our three year old daughter: “Clara, you're brushing your teeth with a Tigger toothbrush while watching Tigger on the iPhone. That's so meta.” And we wonder…
Gratitude journal: Baby still cooking
Tonight I am thankful for my unborn child’s decision to continue cooking for what we hope will be seven more weeks. We had a false alarm this afternoon, which sent…
Looking for a literary agent? Have you tried this strategy yet?
Last summer, I conducted a workshop designed to help writers find a literary agent. Most of the workshop was centered on the strategies that I used when finding my own…
Gratitude journal: He thankfully fired first.
Tonight I am grateful for the loud, rude man in the line at Boston market who was perceptive enough to notice me wince when he demanded a coupon for his…
Metaphorically speaking?
Is it possible that your insistence on turning the page is a metaphorical rejection of the possibility that your future sibling could be a boy and represents your attempt to…
Caine’s Arcade: Pure joy
I know that ten minutes is a long time on the Internet, but I promise that this will be ten minutes of joy. Such creativity. Such enthusiasm. Such persistence. It…
Bob Dylan was oh so right.
This was tweeted by author Steve Himmer yesterday, and I thought it was fascinating enough to post here. Himmer asks: Is there one sentence in this paragraph that would make…
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