Stepping back into history
I spent the afternoon visiting my childhood home in Blackstone, Massachusetts, a house that I lived in from the ages of three to seventeen before my evil step-father stopped paying…
Mass suicide is clearly insane, but the parting of the Red Sea lives in Crazy Town, too.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Heaven’s Gate. Remember the cult? They were the people who believed that an alien spacecraft was following behind the Hale-Bopp comet, and that in…
Beware of what?
What does the homeowner want me to believe? Beware of God, because horrible crimes and atrocities are committed in his name (not to mention a number of atrocities committed by…
Would I even be hungry?
This list of final meal requests from death row inmates fascinates me. Each represents the last request from a dying man. Like Gerald Mitchell: One bag of Jolly Ranchers. And…
Do I have to be a Frenchy?
New Rule: When you don’t know something, there is no need to announce your ignorance to the world, because it might just be something that everyone else knows, making you…
Possibly maybe potentially exciting. Someday. Maybe.
Both SOMETHING MISSING and UNEXPECTEDLY, MILO have been optioned to producers, one for film and the other for television. All this really means is that someone has paid me a…
My dream
In the novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut writes: I make my living being impolite. I can only pray to be as fortunate someday.
Floor plan of Dunder Mifflin
I love The Office. There was a time when Jim and Pam weren’t together that I hung on every machination of their potential relationship. The best part of this floor…
Motivation strategies for employers, teachers and even parents.
Thought: What if I gave my students one day each week to work on any project they wanted? What would happen? Daniel Pink seems to suggest that I should expect…
Death by headphones
Every time I get angry at my cat for waking me up in the morning or sending my to work with a hole chewed out of the crotch of my…
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