Joy in other’s unfortunate desire to sleep
This is one of my favorite times to write. I just spent the last two hours sitting in the lobby of a beautiful Vermont inn, working on my book, while…
Apology conundrum
What’s worse? Demanding a meaningless apology that changes nothing or refusing to apologizing for dropping bombs on the wrong people? I’m not sure.
I don’t know how to explain this to my daughter either
Forty-six percent of Mississippi Republicans support making interracial marriage illegal, and only 40 percent said it should be legal, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released Thursday. I don’t…
The real end to Dead Poet’s Society
We all know the ending of Dead Poet’s Society. Right? If you don’t, shame on you. Go watch the movie. I’m about to spoil it. At the end of the…
Enough with this cliché
When a character speaks slowly in a novel, the author often describes this process as “measuring their words.” I don’t think anyone actually does this. Some people just speak slowly. …
The emailed thank you note: The sign of an advanced civilization
When the emailed thank you note finally takes the place of the physical thank you card in the minds of the minority of tradition-obsessed individuals who make the majority of…
Seriously?
How am I going to explain this to my daughter when she’s old enough to understand the lunacy behind these two maps?
I have a new job.
Frank and Jaime McCourt, owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers and currently engaged in bitter divorce proceedings, paid a psychic hundreds of thousands of dollars over a five-year period to…
Unfaithful unicorn with a mix tape
Somehow, someway, this is funny as hell. But what was the pitch? “I’ll have a steamy romance with a unicorn, set to a an 80’s power ballad, and we’ll throw in…
Assigning my students new (and sometimes permanent) names
As a teacher, I assign a lot of nicknames to students, a practice that my friends and I often did as a kids. Growing up, everyone I knew had a…
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