And just like that, Emma Stone is suddenly the least fortunate starlet in Hollywood. Carrey claims that the video was supposed to be funny and was made to promote his…
There are lots of good reasons to embrace my role as both a husband and a father. But rarely do they come together so perfectly:
The very funny and popular website McSweeney’s is running its annual column contest, and I am planning to enter. The guidelines are thus: We are looking for writing that is…
Want to know how to annoy kids of all ages? When they ask you for your favorite number or color, tell them that you don’t have one. It completely disrupts…
You go to the gym, presumably to exercise. But instead of parking your car in one of many the available spots at the rear of the parking lot (as seen…
I would like to offer an unsolicited, probably unwanted piece of advice to many of the writers who I meet in real life and especially on Twitter: Stop counting words.…
I am not the first person to question out-of-context quotations. Having been victimized by the deliberate mis-characterization and outright altering of written statements, I know how easy it is to…
A reader pointed me to a list of 5 ways to make watching television more active. I was happy to see that I do three of these already: 1. Watch…
Three recent studies that bode exceedingly well for me, and perhaps for you. Study #1 Research published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior found that people who are regularly stressed out…
Author Laurie Halse Anderson, at a recent SCBWI conference, spoke to would-be writers about what she called Attitudes You Want to Grow in Your Soul. The title is a little…
