Hurricane Irene on the tongue
I took advantage of the excessive rain of Hurricane Irene to teach my daughter how to catch raindrops on her tongue. Note that the sound effects were he doing. She…
Your words are doing more harm than good
Today’s Living Social deal for Providence reads like this (with my added commentary): In a city that's dripping with design (Cranston, Rhode Island?), it's sometimes difficult to define your own…
No buyer’s remorse here.
“Wait!” my wife said as she was heading upstairs to take a shower. She turned around, went into the living room and switched on the television. “What?” I asked. “I…
Amorphous, blabbering blobs do not sell books: Learning to write physical description
When I wrote my first novel, Something Missing, I was lost when it came to the physical description of characters, and the characterization of many secondary characters was entirely non-existent.…
Spitting in the eye of Hurricane Irene
The hurricane wasn’t exactly roaring when we went out to jump in the puddles, but the rain was most definitively hurricane rain. I’m teaching my daughter to disrespect the power…
One of these things are not like the other
My wife bought the new Sebastien Braun picture book Goldilocks and the Three Bears on Amazon yesterday. While completing her purchase, she noticed the books that Amazon says are frequently…
The lesson: You can kill mothers, fathers, and children galore. But don’t ever kill the dog.
I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based upon Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name. It stars Will Smith as one of the few survivors of…
Convenience would be a shoe shine boy and a bidet. Not an unlocked door.
I found this sign hanging on the restroom in the local Marshall’s department store. Note that the restroom contains three urinals and two stalls. It’s a large restroom. Not a…
Feeling uncertain about my chest
I like the song “Hey, Soul Sister” by Train a lot. I’ve been listening to it this week as part of my evening run playlist, so I’ve had an opportunity…
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