How do you answer “What do you do for a living?” when you have three jobs?
Whenever I play golf, I find myself meeting new people and having to answer the question, "What do you do for a living?" This is tricky for me. I often…
Perverse political pleasure
I take a perverse pleasure in seeing the political signs for candidates who I despised well after the election is over. It’s a pleasant reminder of how well things worked…
Rhetorical blunder
I said it a week ago when I saw this ad for the first time (and foolishly failed to record my prescience here): In the age of the mash-up, there…
How did you decide upon your occupation?
I am, among other things, a teacher and an author. As a child, I wanted to be a teacher and an author, so things worked out well. My childhood dreams…
For the sake of brevity…
Fans of the NPR radio show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (and grammar nerds), please explain this: When Carl Castle is asked how many points a contestant needs to win,…
Pouty Sanchez
Tim Graham of ESPN writes: The Jets want Mark Sanchez to stop pouting. To force Sanchez into acting as regal as a franchise quarterback should, offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer and…
Defeated by the elderly
In a follow-up to the post about my lack of cultural awareness comes this evening’s revelation that my wife’s 88-year-old grandmother is more culturally aware than either one of us. …
Can’t imagine why I am not universally adored
I am a direct person, and I have always considered this quality to be an asset. Furthermore, I have always had difficulty understanding why anyone in my life would not…
Spiders in a Volkswagen
A few weeks ago I wrote about the best gift that I have ever received, and it included a story about my friend, Tom, and his fear of spiders. In…
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