The 21 stages of accepting an agent’s critique
My agent recently read my current manuscript and sent back an email with some comments. Despite sentences like: I adore these pages! Once again you left me with a cliff-hanger…
Too much like Daddy
She’s only three years old, but she is already exhibiting some of my least favorable qualities: Wife: You should try the green ice cream. I bet you'd like it. Daughter:…
Gratitude journal: Dancing in the kitchen
Tonight I am grateful for the ten minutes of after dinner-dancing that my daughter and I did in the kitchen at her bequest. The music, selected by my wife, included…
When was I supposed to tell him that she is pregnant?
I saw my friend, Gary, last week. He’s an engineer at Pratt and Whitney, and he served as a judge in my annual science fair. I have known Gary for…
Gratitude journal: Plentiful Easter
Tonight I am grateful for many things: Great friends who have a knack of making us feel like family on days like today. My daughter’s spontaneous and unprecedented sharing of…
Ant killer turned ant savior
Our home has been invaded by ants. Today one was crawling across the table. My three year old daughter, Clara, spotted it first. Then my wife, Elysha, saw it. She…
My Wikipedia dream
It’s my dream that someday I will click on the Wikipedia app on my phone, and the featured article of the day will be the same article that brought me…
Gratitude journal: Peanut free Easter candy
Tonight I am grateful to Tootsie Roll Industries, the makers of Andes Candies and Junior Mints, for specifically stating on their packaging that these products are manufactured in facilities that…
Instagram Budo
Someone posted this to Instagram yesterday. It’s a photograph of the back cover of the UK edition of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, enhanced by one of Instagram’s filters. I…
Waiting for Daddy
My daughter spent the night with friends last week while we attended a 90th birthday celebration for my wife’s grandmother in the city. It was Clara’s first overnight stay with…
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