Public marriage proposal: FAIL
I recently wrote about my 5 rules to the successful marriage proposal. Having executed my own successful public proposal, I felt qualified. This proposal is ill advised on so many…
My philosophy of parenting: Ferocity required
I was recently asked by a guy on the golf course to sum up my theory of parenting in "as simple terms as possible." He said that he is always curious…
Teachers need to learn to be publicists, too.
Before you begin reading this, please know that this post reflects the culmination of fifteen years of teaching and does not pertain specifically to anyone who I work with in…
Last night’s Moth audience, courtesy of Dan Kennedy
You can actually see me on the far left in a black and white tee-short, looking decidedly less enthusiastic than the rest.
I won The Moth StorySlam last night, and I still can’t believe it.
Yesterday was one of those days that I will never forget. Last night I had the honor of telling a story at one of The Moth’s StorySLAMs at The Nuyorican…
My petty little slice of Facebook hell
I will sometimes Like a status update on Facebook just so I can Unlike it later because it annoys me so much. Facebook needs a Dislike button very badly. This…
Desperately seeing an Ocean’s 11 answer
Ocean’s 11 aficionados, I have a question that I desperately want answered.Here’s the scene:Danny and Linus have knocked out the guards outside the vault with a smoke grenade. They bang…
Bachmann’s latest history lesson. This time on slavery.
From a piece in The Daily Beast: Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum apparently aren’t close readers, having signed a pledge from a Christian group in Iowa that said black families…
Douchebags Make it Douchy For Non-Douchebags to Wear Watches
The New York Times published a piece this weekend on watches entitled Watches Are Rediscovered by the Cellphone Generation Excerpts from the piece reads: But after going watch-free for much…
An archeological moment in the making
This is how it happens. My daughter creates an elaborate scene involving her little people, like the one most recently posted, and then she turns around and finds something else…
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