I’m writing this one down so that we can enjoy it for years to come. It all started where epic tales do: Facebook Marketplace. First, some background: Jacqueline and I have been sharing a home office since 2021, and it’s worked fairly well. We’ve had a good run, and with her client roster expanding it’s…
This is a modified-for-a-blog-post version of a talk I gave at my kid’s high school FCA meeting this morning. Three quick stories, if I may. Before we get into it, to address two pressing points: First, YES, this is another instance of some 40-something white guy insisting that Eminem is the best rapper alive, and…
Early on in my days as a Father, I started to notice something, and continue to find really funny: namely that there’s a difference in how churches treat parents on their special days of honor. Here’s a slightly dramatized version to highlight the difference: Mother’s Day prayer: “O Lord we thank you for the perfection…
Unattended children will be given a free puppy. But like really, that’s what happened.
It’s pretty simple: you’re incorrect. I’m the only one thinking clearly about how the world actually works.
The other day, I pulled up at a red light next to a custom-painted Chevy Impala. The dude in the car was probably half my age, with multiple pieces of hardware drilled into or dangling from his face, and tattoos that would make a Puritan have to ask for definitions in order to properly blush….
Last night I had a solo music gig at a local assisted living community, where they had me come play some background music for a party focused around some of the medical professionals and home-health providers that work alongside the facility. I’ve played a gig at the community before, but last time it was for…
13 years ago today, I put this on the platform formerly known as Twitter: This tweet is going to be a reference point in the future for me when I recall the days I’d sleep in my car in between jobs. March 15, 2011 I would show up at 4:45 AM to open the Starbucks,…
Here’s the prompt I gave ChatGPT just now: I want you to pretend to be a literary critic of extreme experience who is inexplicably (but genuinely) impressed by the lyrics to “What does the fox say” and then spend at least 4 paragraphs demonstrating how it can be compared favorably to the Divine Comedy by…
Jason Aldean’s song “Try That In A Small Town” has the whole internet taking to their phones either in gleeful support or horror or (the version the algorithms have relentlessly pounded me with) smug talk-down-to-the-offended reactions to the reactions. I can’t help but note that this smells exactly like a genius marketing move for Mr….
This past week, I traveled with my family to the state playoffs of 12U baseball to watch my middle kid compete with his friends. Spoiler alert: it was a blast. This group of 12 kids, 3 coaches, and 30-something family members became like a little family over our time there. The last game we played…
I was recently asked, on a form to apply to speak at a conference, what my preferred pronouns are. This is the first time I’ve faced that question in a way that way *required* a response. It got me thinking about the whole thing. I posted on Facebook, and then got to thinking about it…