Don’t trust a good name when it’s too good.
I distrust convenient names. For example, does anyone else find it a little too convenient that the fastest man in the world is named Usain Bolt? Bolt? C’mon. Doesn’t this…
When choosing a spouse, acceptance isn’t enough.
When my children are is old enough to understand, I am going to offer them some advice in regards to ideal spousal identification. My friend, Kim, tells her children that the most…
Making great use of our Hurricane Irene entrapment
My wife spent a portion of our Hurricane Irene morning teaching Clara to type. Apparently she has been learning that letters in combination amount to words as well. In addition…
Resolution update: August 2011
1. Lose 23 pounds, bringing me down to my high school track and field weight. Down 21 pounds as of this morning. I may be setting a new goal shortly. …
Taking after Daddy
When I was in junior high and high school, I was a proud member of the school’s drum corps. During my six years as a member of our school’s competitive…
A new plan for dealing with the never-ending coffee clichés
I know I have attacked the institution of coffee before and also immediately reconsidered that same position. But did you know that there are nine Dunkin’s Donuts within three miles…
Hurricane Irene on the tongue
I took advantage of the excessive rain of Hurricane Irene to teach my daughter how to catch raindrops on her tongue. Note that the sound effects were he doing. She…
Your words are doing more harm than good
Today’s Living Social deal for Providence reads like this (with my added commentary): In a city that's dripping with design (Cranston, Rhode Island?), it's sometimes difficult to define your own…
No buyer’s remorse here.
“Wait!” my wife said as she was heading upstairs to take a shower. She turned around, went into the living room and switched on the television. “What?” I asked. “I…
Amorphous, blabbering blobs do not sell books: Learning to write physical description
When I wrote my first novel, Something Missing, I was lost when it came to the physical description of characters, and the characterization of many secondary characters was entirely non-existent.…
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