Top 10 moments from the Mommy convention
As promised (after some encouragement from Ann O’Connell), I attended the Mom’s the Word convention yesterday afternoon at the Connecticut Convention Center. Here are some thoughts and observations: 1. This…
Michael Scott’s final words deserved to be heard
Just for the record, I did not approve of the final moment between Pam Halpert and Michael Scott during Steve Carell’s final episode of The Office. Like the final moment…
Not the friends I want
“Carrying a $10,000 Birkin bag by Hermès will make you the envy of your friends. It could also help you snag a higher salary and better job recommendations.” This is…
Henry Blake and Michael Scott: Thankfully not as intertwined as I (and many others) had feared
As The Office’s Michael Scott leaves the show forever, he boards a plane for Colorado and his new life. The final image before the scene ends is of his plane…
The Facebook like button gender gap
The Facebook "Like" button appears to have a severe gender bias. I noticed that the majority of people who like my status updates are female and wondered if this trend…
Devil on the rise
Two firsts today. Neither very good. 1. My daughter’s preschool teacher informed us that our normally angelic child misbehaved today for the first time. She yelled at her teachers and classmates…
McDonald’s and Charlie Sheen would be bad titles, too
In regards to yesterday’s post on author’s acknowledgements: The Ottoman Hotel, Christopher Currie’s novel that includes a marriage proposal within the acknowledgement section, is poorly titled. There is a real…
This is how moms want to spend their weekend?
This week Living Social alerted me to the gomom.me convention taking place this weekend in Hartford, Connecticut. As far as I can tell, this is a convention dedicated to mothers.…
A proposal in an author’s acknowledgements? How do I top this one?
After thanking his publisher and various bosses in the acknowledgements at the end of The Ottoman Hotel, first time novelist Christopher Currie thanked his girlfriend. "If it's possible to fall…
No exaggeration
My father-in-law once asked a former student of mine if I had a tendency to exaggerate at times. “No,” the boy said. “Mr. Dicks doesn’t exaggerate. He either tells the…
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