Dena and I have been having a lot of conversations with our daughter about Thankfulness because of the napkins on our kitchen table. Every napkin has a discussion prompt for people at the table, and this one is Sprout’s favorite: It’s her favorite because of… Read More
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Current Mental Conditions vs. The Mental Forecast
It was a Saturday morning, and my daughter had been awake for forty-five minutes. By that point she had already peppered me with questions about what family birthdays are in which month, fourteen pieces of Star Wars minutiae, and three requests to look at her… Read More
The kind of person who owns grapefruit spoons
One day, my wife and I made the decision in a Crate & Barrel to buy grapefruit spoons. We even went and bought several grapefruits and ate them with those grapefruit spoons. But it never became a habit. We moved several times after that, and… Read More
Let’s Talk About Cats
Picture a cat. Now picture that cat in your home, somewhere near you. What do you imagine that cat doing? Don’t overthink it. Whatever immediately came to mind when I said to imagine a cat in the room with you works fine. Got it? So,… Read More
The Be Here Now Box
Last semester I chose to take a stand on student phone use in class. I wasn’t just getting the occasional person doing a bad job hiding that they were texting in the middle of class. People would take out their phones multiple times during an… Read More
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Simple Fluid Portable Musical
If I had my druthers, I would have a writing shed. Some windows, a power outlet for my laptop and some speakers, and a desk wide enough to spread out some notebooks and a coffee mug. A wall for a cork board and dry erase… Read More
The Four Noble Truths (for Protagonists)
This is a play on the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha, making some alterations to suggest a way of looking at character and storytelling. 1. All protagonists suffer. We don’t watch movies about people who are content unless those people are about to have… Read More
