“In My Life” I have never seen anything better
Yes, having children can make life more complicated and expensive, but you get a moment like this and you can’t believe how lucky you are to have this little person…
Gratitude journal: Idiot cat knows one important thing
He doesn’t know his own name. He eats and then vomits in the most inconvenient places. He eats dog food. He eats cashmere. He eats plastic bags. He eats the…
Baby Lily is an orphan and I shouldn’t give a damn.
It breaks my heart every time my daughter tells me that one of her babies is upset and crying because the baby doesn’t have a Mommy and Daddy. “But Clara,…
Gratitude journal: No gestational diabetes
Tonight I am grateful that my wife does not have gestational diabetes. With three months to go before this baby is born, a case of gestational diabetes would have meant…
That does suck.
We’re not quite sure where she learned this, but we’re not happy. I showed my daughter a photo of her Uncle Jeremy’s cat, Mr. Woo Woo, drinking from the toilet,…
Near-death understanding
At the risk of sounding condescending, I’m not sure to what degree anyone can live every day as if it’s their last unless they have actually faced death firsthand. Maybe…
Gratitude journal: Exceptionally practical friends who understand that brevity is the soul of wit
Tonight I am grateful for the infinitesimal amount of time I spend on the phone thanks to my friends who also have no desire to use this device on a…
The future is apparently now. Jetsons-styled food is almost here. Ice cream, however, remains a problem.
I used to think that the greatest failing of the modern world is our inability to invent a Jetsons-like push-button food machine. I was wrong. Apparently we are a lot closer…
No one tried to kill me last night. For a change.
I had a dream last night that my friend, Charles (who is a physicist), and I were attempting to disprove Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Just before I awoke, Charles declared that…
Gratitude journal: An abundance of ideas
Tonight I am thankful for the many ideas I have for future books. My agent has told me many times that I am fortunate to be able to generate so…
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