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 to honor Abraham Lincoln and the attention he'll receive at the Academy Awards this evening because of the Spielberg film. It’s a…
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. They chose "Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend" 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 necessary, but this seems to be a prerequisite for mothering, and her car is littered with…
The old man is not a choreographer or dance instructor, regardless of what my daughter would have you believe.
My daughter calls this The Waddle Waddle Dance. I love her new dance, but there is no way that her grandfather taught her this dance, despite her attribution at the…
Faking your own death as part of the proposal? Exchanging vows via Twitter? Strange, but still better than this.
A Russian man faked his own death in order to propose to his girlfriend. Alexey Bykov hired a filmmaker, makeup artists, and stuntmen to create an elaborate car-crash scene, then…
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