grin and bare it
A blog by Matthew Dicks
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 to positive psychological change experienced…
Read MoreHow 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 life, the Cadbury Crème Egg…
Read MoreOur 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, clearly plotting the conquest of…
Read MoreBut 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 I would typically use in…
Read MoreAll 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 never used it myself,…
Read MoreI 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 am exposed to on a…
Read MoreMATTHEW 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 more than three excellent drinking…
Read MoreCancellation 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 and what seemed like years…
Read MoreToddler 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, she will often fall back…
Read MoreWhat is my girl thinking?
Here’s the latest scene that my daughter left behind in the living room. I’m not sure how to interpret it. It’s important to note that Super Grover is Clara’s favorite character. Even so, doesn’t it…
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