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As I was walking out the door on Wednesday morning, I realized that I had forgotten my cell-phone, and so I went back into the kitchen to re...

This Thanksgiving, we were able to resurrect an old tradition -- one we haven't done in a few years-- we hightailed it out of Jersey to ...

In Hanna Rosin's new book The End of Men and the Rise of Women, she uses the stark contrast between how her son and how her daughter ...

On our Thanksgiving pilgrimage to Bolton Valley, Vermont, there was much mention of the legendary Heady Topper Imperial I.P.A -- a locally b...

It's a good thing Sentence of Dave super-commenter Zman recommended that I read Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian feminist novel  H...

No matter how stupid the idea is, I love it when an essay start with the premise "there are two types of people" and so I will fol...

I have been writing this blog for so long, that I can't really remember much that happened before its inception (I refer to these events...

My dog has gone from being a one bagger to a two bagger, and while this is a good thing in a baseball game, it's NOT such a good thing d...

For the greatest Thanksgiving monologue in cinematic history, you need to watch Pieces of April and learn why Eddie has changed his name to ...

Now that our power is back, I am happy to say that the worst problem in our house is a universal one -- and though I didn't flush the to...

I asked my son Alex what he was doing on the playground with his friends, and he told me -- without any shame-- that they were playing a gam...

Catherine and I attended two parties over the weekend . . . Friday night was the Third Annual Scary Story Contest and Saturday night was a ...

There was a big crowd this year for Liz and Eric's Third Annual Scary Story Contest , and I was feeling some anxiety because I wanted to...

Last Wednesday afternoon, my son Ian walked into the small bathroom off our living room,yelled "It's so hot in here!" and then...

Peter Heller's new novel The Dog Stars returns to a postapocalyptic world similar to Cormac McCarthy's The Road , but this story is ...

Right now in my English class we are the "Process Analysis" unit, which is a fancy way to describe a "How To" essay -- a...

My black leather belt got stuck in one of the loops of my blue jeans, which really annoyed me, and so I gave it a Lenny-esque yank and ri...

Three years ago, we completely remodelled our kitchen, and there are still some features that I haven't utilized . . . because I hav...

The "freshman fifteen" has been debunked , but I can attest that the "Sandy Seven" is real . . . I'm wearing it arou...

I liked The Brothers Bloom , but I didn't love it -- it is definitely a film with more style than substance, which also describes the br...