Over the past three years, I have been extremely critical of people who demand apologies, more so than I ever even realized. In February of 2010, I was critical of…
When I was a kid, my brothers and sisters and I would often spend our evenings playing a game that we called Monster. I would be given a few minutes…
Someone please explain to me how a quarterback can fail to complete a single pass or do anything productive for his team and still have a rating of 39.6. Shouldn’t…
Regardless of how many times I see this (and it’s almost daily), I’ll never understand it: Two women are working out together at the gym. One is dressed in a…
I went upstairs to see if I could get my two-year old to nap. She had been sitting in the crib for almost an hour, talking and playing but not…
A few years ago, I posted a list of all the jobs I have held in my life in chronological order. Things have changed since then, so here is my…
The Forbes piece is “What Your Mother Never Told You About Life After Marriage.” The thesis of the piece (if you haven’t already guessed) is this: Marriage is not easy,…
My daughter has taken to dancing right before bed. We read our books, and just when we are ready to turn off the lights and plop her in her crib,…
The dog woke up at 2:30 AM. She was acting crazy. Snorting, sneezing, and rolling on the ground. I thought she was sick. Then I smelled something foul. “Oh no,”…
It’s the kind of thing that parents love because they get to watch their kid run around a pole as they genuflect on tradition and ancestry and Earthy goodness, but…
