I’m not a Past Commander, but I’ve got some pin-worthy material of my own
While judging an American Legion Oratorical Contest, I noticed a Legionnaire with a large, gold pin on his arm that read Past Commander. A pin denoting a previous station in…
Post traumatic growth: Making bad guys more lovable and appreciated
Martin Seligman, director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, was speaking about post-traumatic growth on a recent edition of the Harvard Business Review Post-traumatic growth refers…
How to properly eat a Cadbury Crème Egg
There is one and only one correct way to eat a Cadbury Crème Egg. Allow me to explain. In case you have been living under a rock for your entire…
Our little devil
Please take note of the distinct change in my daughter between the two sets of photographs. Here is Clara, innocently eating some ice cream. Seconds later, here is Clara,…
But can I sing the N-word?
I am not a person who would ever use the N-word. While I don’t support the revision of Huckleberry Finn that excludes the N-word, it is not a word that…
All intents and purposes. And intensive purposes.
Until I was about twenty years old, I thought that the phrase “all intents and purposes” was “all intensive purposes.” And while I heard people say the phrase quite often,…
I get irradiated by my wife every night.
I stared at this radiation dose chart for hours. Well, maybe not that long. But too long. I have a full and complete understanding of the amount of radiation I…
MATTHEW DICKS’ RULES OF ALL DRINKING STORIES
No one will ever care about your drinking stories as much as you. Drinking stories never impress the type of woman who one would want to impress. If you have…
Cancellation celebration
Since mid-January, my friends and I have been trying to organize a trip to Florida (and later Atlanta) for a weekend of golf. With the snow piling up around us…
Toddler manipulation
When Clara wakes up every morning, I wait about fifteen minutes before extracting her from the crib. Although she often sounds wide awake and quite ready to begin her day,…
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