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The Undiscovered  podcast episode "Party Lines" is the best piece of non-partisan political commentary I've heard in a long t...

I have nothing creative in the tank, as I'm using all my willpower to not eat the Reeses peanut butter cups in the closet.

Handling raw chicken is almost gross enough to make me become a vegetarian (but not quite).

I'm not a big fan of orange foods (aside from oranges, which I love) and while I'll occasionally munch on a carrot or sample a sweet...

The Weeds  provided a great explanation for the growing political polarization in our whacked-out nation with their episode  "Republica...

Parent/teacher conferences, a couple of away games, a puking player on the bur ride to South Amboy, forgotten socks by my son at South Amboy...

Sarah Smarsh's Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth  is a more poetic, even harder luck v...

Yesterday we had a half day of school with the students and then had to return at 5:30 PM for the dreaded parent/teacher conference night . ...

I had a bit of a Willy Loman moment yesterday when my son Ian opened his book bag and produced one of the soccer balls I instructed him to s...

Alex took his sweatshirt off at the restaurant last night and I was sitting on the same side of the table as him and I said, "Look at t...

Wind: the hot sauce of weather (we had to play on the waterfront in Elizabeth today and while the temperature was a deceptive 47 degrees, th...

I tired myself out tiring the dog out.

Winter skipped the whole "coming" thing: it's here (especially in the English Office, which lost heat this week because a boil...

My first period creative writing class is comprised of eleven girls and one boy (and me) and this one boy wrote a wonderful personification ...

Catherine was at a cooking class last night, so I was in charge of dinner-- but she kindly ran to Costco and bought us two rotisserie chicke...

Jonathan Goldstein's podcast Heavyweight  is by turns poignant, acerbic, mock-epic and-- of course-- funny . . . it generally has a very...

I would like to point out, for the record, that I finished Christina Dalcher's dystopian feminist novel Vox  in a laundromat . . . becau...

I almost forgot to write a sentence today because Cat and I got so wrapped up in the Amazon series Forever  . . . I can't tell you about...

Here's some more house stuff that you might eventually learn, but-- unfortunately-- by the time you learn it, you won't get too many...

The weather gods have responded to my plea for some decent fall weather, so I'm going to go outside and enjoy it; I'll write somethi...