New business idea: Rorschach tee-shirts
My daughter does not know what a ninja is yet, nor is she able to discern the face embedded in my Ask a Ninja tee-shirt. Instead, she sees three separate …
St. John Eyre Rivers is a single-minded jackass, but I love him just the same
Last Jane Eyre post. I promise. But I love this section of text. Jane has discovered that she is the heiress to a sizeable fortune in informs her cousin, St.…
My Moth story (or as close an approximation of the story as I can muster)
Hopefully the story that I told at the recent Moth StorySlam will one day be broadcast as one of their weekly podcasts, but many, many outstanding stories are told at…
Populating the bathroom with antiques and curiosities
“Don’t mind the dying cat,” my friend, Shep, said after directing me to the bathroom. I peed sitting down. I was afraid to turn my back on the thing.
A sign of tattoos to come?
We like to reward our daughter with stickers because she likes them a lot. Unfortunately, whenever we give her one, she immediately lifts her shirt and sticks it to her…
Poor Jane Eyre. She’s been hungry for a whole 19 hours.
Yesterday I declared Jane Eyre to be a superhero and specifically described her super power: Super powerful nostril and brow identification But all superhero fans know that with almost every…
Not-so-secret secrets to sleep
When people express envy about the fact that I only require about five hours of sleep a night and can often get by with less, I like to say that…
Did you know that Jane Eyre is a superhero? Or perhaps a mutant? Or an alien? Or maybe even a werewolf? But with super powers nonetheless.
It’s been a fine, fine novel so far, but the Victorian obsession with physical description, and more important, the assumptions that one could apparently draw based upon physical characteristics, has…
My obituary and eulogy instructions
In the off-chance that I die someday (an unlikely occurrence considering my super powers), I would like my obituary written and my eulogy spoken in the present tense. Nothing at…
Blue Stripy is my favorite pair of underwear. What’s yours?
Am I the only one who thinks it odd that our underwear drawers are filled with underwear of varying types, styles and appearances? This morning, I put on my favorite…
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