Dude! Use a Toilet

Thinking about powerlessness. I am a parent, so the grasp for complete power over another human is a constant mirage. Just when I think I have trained my son to act like a human, he takes a leak in the parking lot. God I’m trying, but I don’t know… On Sunday we talked...

Is it cool to wear pink at Easter?

I have a undergraduate degree in history. I enjoy stories, especially real ones. I guess this is why I embrace the documentary genre so heartily. Interestingly, I have always looked at Easter as a religious event more than a huge historical anomaly. Whether you...

Chemistry was BLAST!

Have you ever worked really hard to be noticed, loved, appreciated, or just let into the inner circle? For most of us, our first taste of being forgettable comes in middle school.   You help with a bake sale and don’t even realize it has a “cause”....

Just pretend for a second

I was having a lunch with a friend the other day and he was wrestling with his career choice. He is tired, bored, wondering if this is it. Work to make money, spend money to rest up, so he can go back to work. You get it. So I said pretend that there is this...