Timing is everything
Just as the Miami Dolphins tied the score, sending their game against Tennessee into overtime (annoying me immensely), my Google Alert pointed me to a delightful post on The Official Gordon…
Not cool
Nothing against a holiday wreath, but what’s with the disembodied baby’s head? Who thinks this is cute? I had to stare at it throughout breakfast, and it got creepier by…
Holiday treat
Praise from Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, who includes Something Missing in his Ten Books You Will Just Simply Enjoy.
Bad book covers
Joe Queenan recently wrote an essay in the Sunday Book Review about how bad book covers can influence his reading choices. I feel his pain. Bad book covers have kept…
Challenging literary analysis
Tonight, I was reading Eric Carle’s The Very Lonely Firefly to my daughter. Though I like the book a lot, I apparently never fully understood the story. As the firefly…
Honesty gets you nowhere
I must have been living in a cave four years ago when Ayelet Waldman published this piece in which she says she loves her husband more than her children. In…
New name. New design. Same writer.
In case you haven’t noticed, the masthead of this blog changed today. The original masthead, designed by my wife, reflected the blog’s previous URL. That address, matthewdicks.com, is now the…
Judging people based upon viewing choices
It might not be nice, but I often judge people by the television shows they watch while exercising at the gym. Each machine has its own TV, and I find…
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