I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in…
Tonight I am grateful for Allison, my former second and third grade student who is now in college and has become my daughter’s primary babysitter. There was a time when…
My two-year old daughter spoke to her grandfather on the phone today. She said, “Gramps, I threw up. It was frustrating.” Indeed.
Yesterday was my wife’s birthday. My daughter kicked off the celebration around 12:30 AM by projectile vomiting on her. Happy birthday, Mommy! But here’s the thing: When it comes to…
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright Very little is known about Herm…
Elysha gave Clara her bridesmaid’s bouquet on the morning after her friend’s wedding. Needless to say Clara was thrilled. I received these videos on the way to the Patriots game…
Last week I criticized this sentence in Roger Angell’s recent New Yorker piece on the demise of the post office: Troops in Afghanistan and, until lately, Iraq keep up by…
Tonight I am grateful for the fifteen minutes that my daughter spent cuddling with me before bed, as well as her subsequent request that I place her in the crib…
A brand new fan of my books, who lives in the UK and received both my books for Christmas, has been reading my blog over the past couple weeks, beginning…
