I finally read Where the Wild Things Are. Sort of.
Having grown up with almost no children’s books in the home, it has been an unexpected joy to read these classics for the first time with my daughter. I would…
Gratitude journal: The almost perfect game
Yesterday I was grateful for poker, which I described as the perfect game. Tonight I am grateful for golf, the almost perfect game. I played today thanks to a spat…
Blurb!
In the wake of Jodi Picoult’s exceptionally generous blurb comes this one from Carol Kranowitz, a teacher, a leader in the autism community and the bestselling author of The Out-of-Sync…
Gratitude journal: The perfect game
Tonight I am grateful for poker. It is a perfect game. It creates an environment in which a group of players attempt to extract money from one another by utilizing…
Insightful and hilarious confirmation that my publisher and I are a perfect match
In a recent meeting with the sales, publicity and marketing team of my publisher, St. Martin’s Press, I was asked about the decision to publish in the UK under the…
Bun Head’s lesson to a bad boy and future teacher.
I recently told a story onstage as part of a joint venture between The Story Collider and the New York Academy of Sciences. It’s a story about my high school biology…
Gratitude journal: I didn’t marry that woman.
Tonight I am grateful that my wife is not the woman who was sitting behind me during last night’s Second City performance, failing to hear about a third of the…
The evolving sadness of my mother’s death
St. Patrick’s Day would have been my mother’s 62nd birthday. She passed away in 2007. Losing a mother is never easy. Losing one so early in life is especially hard.…
Gratitude journal: My big little writers
Tonight I am grateful for my class of earnest, committed and genuinely talented writers. As part of their reward for completing two weeks of standardized testing, my class enjoyed a…
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