The greatest sacrifice of all
I gave my daughter the last black and white cookie tonight after dinner. She began eating but then spit out the partially chewed cookie onto her plate, saying, “No! This…
Why Your Life Sucks in Two Simple Pictures
Jessica Hagy in Forbes wrote a piece entitled How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Easy Steps). It’s an insightful and amusing piece, but had I been her editor, I…
Why my daughter is free to watch Scooby Doo whenever she damn well pleases
Sometimes you run into sheer brilliance in the most unexpected places. On the Comics Alliance blog, Chris Sims writes about Scooby Doo and secular humanism in a piece that I…
Gratitude journal: The family dinner
Tonight I am grateful for the family dinner. This evening, Clara asked that we read to her during dinner, but Elysha suggested that we talk instead. Clara wasn’t too keen…
Todd Glass’s call for support of the LGBT community
Todd Glass is a well known and very successful comedian who came out publicly as gay on Marc Maron’s popular podcast this week. if you’re not easily offended by the…
Toddler definitions are the best
Clara placed some of her little people on a pillow and referred to it as an iceberg. Surprised that she might know what an iceberg is, I asked, “Clara, what’s an…
Gratitude journal: Orthotics
Tonight I am grateful for orthotics, the seemingly innocuous insoles that were inserted into my sneakers by a podiatrist. They changed my life. Within a day of donning them, the…
Four tiny bites of carrot ruined my night.
I’m annoyed with my daughter tonight. Had she eaten four tiny pieces of carrot, she could ended dinner with a delicious black and white cookie, straight from William Greenberg Desserts…
An end to the ritual of the funeral processional, at least for me
Far be it for me to attempt to eliminate something as solemn and traditional as the funeral procession from the burial traditions of the deceased. I mean, if someone requested…
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