Three simple, slightly spiteful, steps to happiness
A friend of mine sent this to me: David Letterman to Ricky Gervais: Why did you host Golden Globes a third time? Well, the first time I did it because…
A friend of mine sent this to me: David Letterman to Ricky Gervais: Why did you host Golden Globes a third time? Well, the first time I did it because…
Tonight I am grateful for my gloves and mittens. I was reminded last night that I did not own gloves or mittens for much of my childhood. Instead, we wore…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…