Exclamation points say so much about a person
Cut out all those exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes. —F. Scott Fitzgerald This is a hard lesson to teach to ten-year old writers,…
Broken baby
I was playing with my daughter on Sunday, and I think I broke her. While flying her around the kitchen, she landed funny on her leg and began crying. While…
My wife will just about anything to expand my daughter’s palate
For a man who despises broccoli, this whole incident was downright frightening. Cooler heads finally prevailed:
Her first haircut will be a doozy
This page from Dr. Seuss’s ABC Amazing Alphabet Book scared the hell out of my daughter. She stared at the baby in the barber's chair, with the enormous pair of…
Gucci what?
My brother-in-law owned this pair of Gucci sneakers, which, as far as I can tell, retail for about $500. I was hoping to tease him about the sneakers for the…
Should decisions made twenty years ago impact employment today? I’m undecided.
I’m torn. I want to support this teacher and her right to teach. I believe in giving people a second chance. I believe that decisions made twenty years ago rarely…
Anti-dragon sentiment has dissipated considerably
Either my daughter’s opinion of dragons have changed since I last posted about them or what I thought was a threatening ring of little people around the dragon was actually…
How far does your field of expertise actually stretch?
Since when did meteorologists become the lead experts on earthquakes and tsunamis? I just spent my workout at the gym watching the coverage of the Japanese earthquake on CNN, and…
Always great or recently great?
Jeff Bridges career is having a revival of sorts, having been nominated for the Academy Award the last two years (Crazy Heart and True Grit). He was previously nominated for…
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