Two different alert readers sent me the link to this New York Times article about how fathers - especially "daddy bloggers" - r...

Poetry doesn't pay.  Contract murder bankrupts my soul.  What to do?* *This poem has no basis in my reality.  It came to me fully f...

Nice job, Western civilization.  It only took how many thousand years to come up with these easy open cereal bags? This competent parent...

These two items don't go together at all, but I wanted to update each of them, and neither of them felt like a full post, so I mashed th...

Having told you what not to read (IMHO), today I supply my recommendations from this year's reading.  It turns out, I liked a lot of boo...

Before I get to the books I enjoyed this year, let me pause and warn you against some books I really didn't like for various reasons. ...