Gratitude journal: Time zones (I know. Weird, huh?)
Tonight I am grateful to time zones, which are usually a pain in the ass but have been a blessing to me as Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend begins publishing…
I can only hope that my students were playing videogames or watching TV or playing with fire when Rick Santorum was speaking.
One of the most important lessons I try to teach my students is the importance of admitting a mistake and possessing the moral integrity to apologize and make it right.…
Gratitude journal: Just the right movie for a workout
Most of the elliptical machines that I use at the gym are equipped with televisions. I often spend my 30-45 minutes of cardio listening to podcasts, audiobooks and music, but…
Shopping and cooking take too much damn time.
The greatest failing of the modern world is our inability to invent a Jetsons-like push-button food machine.
Happy to not suffer from a shrinking penis
David Brook’s book The Social Animal makes reference to a mental condition known as koro. Koro is a culture-specific syndrome from Southeast Asia in which the person has an overpowering…
Mindy Kaling’s 13 Rules for Guys
Mindy Kaling’s memoir Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me has a chapter that lists and explains Kaling’s 13 Rules for Guys. I liked the list immediately because of its number. Thirteen. Not ten.…
Gratitude journal: Daddy!
Almost without fail, my favorite moment of every day is moment I step through the door after work and hear my daughter shout “Daddy!” Most of the time she comes…
Cat Stevens taught me that authors should not act like jerks.
I have a more-than-slight tendency to act like a jerk. I can be biting, sarcastic, oppositional, confrontational, aggravating, nonconforming, and disagreeable. My mother referred to me as The Instigator. I…
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