Since 2010, I have lost 55 pounds. I still get asked how I managed to accomplish this weight loss, and my standard (and slightly annoying) answer is that I decided…
Tonight I am grateful for my wife’s propensity to become teary-eyed when one of her students experiences success. Today I watched her eyes fill up with tears in front of…
If this man were the president of my university, I would strongly advise against producing any future video messages. This message does not inspire confidence. It might inspire me to…
My South Korean editor contacted me last night to inform me that my first novel, SOMETHING MISSING, was published in Korea a couple weeks ago and has been receiving very…
A friend of mine sent this to me: David Letterman to Ricky Gervais: Why did you host Golden Globes a third time? Well, the first time I did it because…
Tonight I am grateful for my gloves and mittens. I was reminded last night that I did not own gloves or mittens for much of my childhood. Instead, we wore…
I gave my daughter the last black and white cookie tonight after dinner. She began eating but then spit out the partially chewed cookie onto her plate, saying, “No! This…
Jessica Hagy in Forbes wrote a piece entitled How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Easy Steps). It’s an insightful and amusing piece, but had I been her editor, I…
Sometimes you run into sheer brilliance in the most unexpected places. On the Comics Alliance blog, Chris Sims writes about Scooby Doo and secular humanism in a piece that I…
Tonight I am grateful for the family dinner. This evening, Clara asked that we read to her during dinner, but Elysha suggested that we talk instead. Clara wasn’t too keen…
