From lunacy to reason in just three days
On Saturday we were back at the emergency room with our daughter after a less-than-pleasant ambulance ride two days before. The dreaded hives had reappeared, and unaware that this was…
I hate the Red Sox, but I love these guys
I’m listening to the book Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season by Stephen King and Stuart O’Nan. It’s essentially a double-entry journal that chronicles…
Last year I punched the guy. Yesterday he apologized.
More than a year ago, I broke up a fight in the parking lot of my gym. In the process, I was forced to throw a punch of my own.…
Replacing a monster of a father
For those interested, there is a new post on 107 Federal Street, the blog that my sister and I write about our childhood. This week I respond to my sister’s…
“The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever”
Normally I would post a link to a story like this on Facebook and Twitter with a brief suggestion that you read it. But I can’t risk you not reading…
Wedding reboot: Matt and Elysha trivia
My wife and I will celebrate our sixth wedding anniversary later this month. A couple of days ago, I was writing about the hora, and it prompted me to go…
Simian declarations
I handed my daughter a banana yesterday for lunch. “Daddy, cut it up! I’m not a monkey!” As I was cutting it up, she added, “You’re hairy like a monkey!…
“I don’t want to be Jewish!”
Gary Sernovitz of Slate does not like the hora for a number of reasons, including the fact that it’s not even Jewish. I am also not Jewish, but having been…
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