The Nerd, it is strong in this one.
My oldest son is an up-and-coming cartoonist, and I am keenly aware that, if his career takes off, I will …
Category Archives: running commentary
God bless Weston, Missouri.
I’m not one to sit around and guess who’s going to hell, if for no other reason than that I’m …
Dressing my kid up as Larry Fitzgerald for Halloween doesn’t make me a Satanist…
….but I’ll defend to the death your right to think so. It all started innocently enough: Kurt Warner is the …
It’s beginning to look a lot like…Halloween?
I spent my Wonder Years in a little town outside of Philadelphia. I don’t know if it’s still a tradition, …
Given how I feel about the word ‘boobies’….
…I don’t think it’s surprising that I find this spectacularly unfunny. Of course, I’ve been told by many people that …
The Girlie Show
I know he meant well. A close friend and I were ensconced in the corner at Starbucks in the leather …
A rose by any other name…
…should never be called Liz. When I was born, almost fifty-one years ago, my parents, who were now naming their …
Sometimes all you get to eat is crow in a takeout container.
So the Olde Salty restaurant has banned screaming children, and I, who have spent way too many evenings out sitting …
I think I just died and went to heaven.
Because never, ever, ever in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that anyone ever would dream up, let alone …
I guess the next step will be “B-52 Parents”
When I went away to college in 1977, my parents loaded up a car and hauled me to Flagstaff, hauled …
Mom, Interrupted 