Hey Ugly, Your Nose is Big and You’re Disgusting!

Elementary school, northern New Jersey, where everyone knows everyone and the same small group of kids…

Ode to the Birkenstock, a Shoe I Swore I’d Never Wear

The song that put the knife in the Hair Metal era

And threw me right into the arms of Nirvana.

I Was Ghosted By A Friend And It Still Haunts Me…

How a broken microwave provided life lessons to my kids.

This time, lazy has paid off.

10 questions I need answered before I commit to being a “middle aged man”.

The time has come to face the reality of getting older.

Temporarily 44, Not Forever 21

I was grocery shopping not too long ago when a woman caught my attention. I only saw her from behind but she wore teeny, tiny hot pink shorts that may have been a bathing suit bottom, her hair was so long that it grazed the top of her buttocks and her shoes were heels with…

A life lesson in the form of a peacock

A slight break in the morning routine provides an important lesson.

When Obsessive Tendencies Lead to Terror

‘The closet door was open. Not much. Just a crack. But I knew I left it shut, see.” — from “The Boogeyman” by Stephen King

A smelly bedroom, a Doritos obsessed dog, bad parenting and the bedtime routine that never ends.

That fun-filled week that is Christmas vacation.