Towers and castles and monuments, oh my!
Almost overnight, my daughter has gone from a three or four block tower builder into someone much more ambitious and highly skilled. I’d like to think that she is constructing…
The reason that you are trying to lose weight could be the key to your success or failure
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…
Gratitude journal: My wife’s tears
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…
Underwhelming. No, more than that. Weird.
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…
SOMETHING MISSING: The Korean edition
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…
Three simple, slightly spiteful, steps to happiness
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…
Gratitude for gloves and mittens
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…
The greatest sacrifice of all
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…
Why Your Life Sucks in Two Simple Pictures
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…
Why my daughter is free to watch Scooby Doo whenever she damn well pleases
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…
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