A year ago, I saw several different kids dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween, back before we knew that we’d be suffering under that lunatic’s idiocy. What an exhausting year! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but this year even the candy seems worn down by the last horrible year of…

My daughter was searching on Amazon, her preferred mode of shopping, for a birthday gift for her friend. When I go on Amazon, I type in stuff like “Man Vs Child: One Dad’s Guide to the Weirdness of Parenting” (natch). But my daughter, not having anything specifically in mind, was searching in the most…

Kids have an ability to be so ACTIVELY BORED, in a way that grown-ups don’t. As an adult, if I’m bored I am quiet, I’m scrolling away on my phone or I’m napping or I’m watching TV. I’m low-key.

I’ve been asked this question a few different times and I haven’t had a really good answer prepared. She’s read it, but she didn’t go into a whole bunch of effusive praise about it. She did tell me that she laughed a lot. I think it was basically a good review!

It has been a while since I have been really writing stuff for the blog here, what with me trying to get you all to buy my book. In the interim my daughter just graduated from Fifth Grade! Wow. So needless to say the last 3 weeks of school were occupied with practicing the…