Baby-in-the-movie follow-up and the start of a new crusade
I contacted the manager of the theater where my wife and I saw The Descendants on Valentines Day. I explained our experience in detail and spoke for quite a while…
Gratitude journal: Perfect behavior
As if she knew that it was my birthday, my daughter’s behavior was angelic last night. With my wife in class, Clara and I went to dinner with friends at…
I went to see The Descendants and found myself sitting beside two morons and their baby.
Elysha and I went to the movie last night for Valentines Day. We saw a 7:35 PM showing of The Descendants, which we liked a lot. We arrived to the…
Gratitude journal: Tupperware
Tonight I am grateful for the arrival of our new set of Tupperware. Few things make me happier than disposing of mismatched plastic containers and lids and replacing them with…
The problem with karma (and my completely realistic solution)
This is the problem with karma: It offers no confirmation that the people who have wronged you in the past have been paid back sufficiently. There are people in the…
Gratitude journal: The awfulness snuck up on me and now it is over
Tonight I am grateful that my dentist appointment is behind me. I had a small cavity in need of filling that required three shots of Novocain. Being a person pathologically…
Yes, it was a jerky thing to do, but it made me happy and she deserved it.
Perhaps you had to be there to enjoy this as much as I did, but this was the highlight of my day: I was returning home from the gym when…
Do you ever cross your fingers anymore?
I just wrote the phrase “Fingers crossed!” in an email to my editor. I used the phrase to signal that I was hoping for good luck, but when was the…
Gratitude journal: Possibility
I am forever grateful for the endless possibility that exists in my life. Perhaps I will always be a slightly-less-than-midlist author who publishes a fairly well reviewed novel every year…
5 rules to follow when you find or steal a wallet or handbag
In an ideal world, wallets and purses would never be stolen and lost wallets and purses would always be returned to their owners in perfect order. Sadly, we do not…
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