I don a long-sleeved flannel shirt, jeans, and sensible boots, so I can get down to business in my neat, climate-controlled workshop that has an ideal set-up and layout for bike repair. Following the video’s directions, I choose from a random selection of tools scattered about on my serious-looking workbench…

Back-to-school season is filled with surprising little joys — My daughter is only seven, but she’s already worked the worst job in the world. You probably know that early elementary school students often have classroom jobs like Line Leader, Door Holder, and Chalkboard Eraser Clapper. I remember the last one being the crown jewel of the classroom job chart…

Desperate times call for desperate measures — I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it’s been hot lately. Like, obscenely hot. I’m a Florida native so heat and humidity are as natural to me as a lizard crawling across my toes or a frog hanging out on the wall of my kids’ bedroom, but this year the…

“It was the end of a long day, and even though I knew better, it just slipped out,” said Sharon, a 31-year-old mother of two, in reference to her recent usage of a ‘That’s What She Said’ joke within earshot of her 5-year-old son Rory. “Rory was playing with a…

Just keep going — As I slowed to a walk, I was a bit more out of breath than I might’ve expected after a very short jog. There was no two ways about it, I needed to get in better shape if I was going to be able to keep up with my dad…

Reentering the workforce can be a real blood sport — I’ve been a stay-at-home dad for more than a decade, and I have to admit that trying to reenter the job market after so long has been even more daunting than I expected. I guess it should come as no surprise. The last time I held a full-time office job…

Notes on lost glasses and poorly placed pianos — I left my eyeglasses at a La Quinta Inn in Fort Lauderdale. This could be the first line of a bad country song if you just added “and my heart” somewhere in the middle, but alas, it’s not. It’s simply a sad tale about poor eyesight. Or rather, a tale…

Is it finally time for the internet to see my feet? — I’ve been existing online for almost two decades now and during that time I’ve had one hard and fast rule. One binding commandment I swore I’d never break. That guiding principle: Under no circumstances will I ever post feet pics on the internet. Ah, man, this is tough… am I…

It’s a weird time — I was sitting in the second row of a famous theater in Miami getting ready to watch some YouTubers play Roblox live on stage when I checked my phone to find that the world was falling apart again. Now, I think it’s safe to say that the world is always…