15 Things I Learned from my Father
11. Marry someone who isn’t afraid to challenge you and then write them love poems. Kiss them in front of your kids even if they pretend they don’t like it.
I Sing the Body Collective
At some level, isn’t that what individualism is all about? Being the hero. Saving the day. Who watches Han Solo blow up TIE fighters, and then decides he’d rather be the air traffic controller who directs X-wings to Yavin IV?
A Love Letter to my English Major
I wonder, sometimes, if you feel forgotten. After all, I did not become an English professor, as I once thought I might.
The Ki-Yah Impromptima: The Car For People Who Have Stopped Caring
If you routinely hit signs, fire hydrants, lampposts, pedestrians, and other cars, the Impromptima won’t change any of that.
I Am Not Making This Up: Reasons to Read Dave Barry in These Trying Times
“Mature reaction to a routine colonoscopy: HE’S GOING TO STICK A TUBE SEVENTEEN THOUSAND FEET UP YOUR BUTT.”
Why Notre Dame’s Walkout on Mike Pence Matters
Words are not the deciding factor here. Actions are met with actions.
What Happens Next?
There is increasing political talk in the United States about deporting the migrants who are apprehended at our border or inside of it. There is very little talk about what happens next.
RPSBYAW
Abby said I could write “500-800 words about anything under the sun,” so I wrote a computer game in which you play Rock, Paper, Scissors against a computer, but you always win.
Sympathy and Empathy
Lens #1: Meet sympathy. Sympathy looks at another person’s situation and feels bad.
Samuel Chester: A Big-Freaking-Deal
The freedom to be kids and learn via mistakes is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give, and my father gave it in abundance.
