Essays

I drank my first beer with my other hand up, to order the second. What if I finished that first beer and the second wasn’t there?

Three days of torrential rain turned the property into a porous sponge. My kids were wearing other kids’ clothes. My wife was feeding the family out of cardboard boxes.

“Lyle Lovett is afraid of women and in his songs, he fears them," I say. "They surprise him, steal his heart, and 20 years later, he is still trying to…

He falls smack on his back and his feet wiggle in the air. How did he not whack his head? How is he not bleeding?

There’s a man in my door; he is me .

I just saw a play within a film on a movie screen. Maybe you’ve heard of it: Macbeth?

Is reading your content the best part of a user's day? Does it make you smile?

With the confidence of a lone lion, I shift with the stick in my wrong hand whilst sitting in the wrong car seat and driving on the wrong side of…

Ours is a life of perpetual interruption. We don’t always agree, but we are aligned; we are together.

Pop passed in the 9 o’clock hour. In the morning. It was a Friday. And he left half past the hour.

I’m fever-dreaming; all four of us know it. Can the people at the bar hear us? I don’t care. Our time is short.

Dad was dying and I was ready. I was ready to close his eyes. It was my turn to get this right.

An American success story. You’d think he was blessed. That he was lucky.

Seems like a year ago I went to New York to bury Pop. It’s been 2 weeks.

As I’m going through my Dad’s papers, I’m telling myself he deliberately left what he left.

He’s happy that I’m open with him about my feelings, that I’m less angry. That I tell him about my “depressed moments.” And I do.

First, you get a paper cup. Soft-peddle your chatter. Don’t explain, just beg.

I thought this was an interesting paradox: one construction project trumping another construction project. Though both projects yield a permanent product, management prioritized the structure. Prospective mothers will hopefully be…

See why these fair-skinned people dress in full-length wet suits to surf an an ocean that’s always in winter.

When's the right time to use - and not use - a comma in a series in a sentence?

When do punctuation marks stay inside the quote marks? Always. Imagine you're planting a vegetable garden.

Jared Spool makes his living showing the rest of us the “obvious” paths, providing the rest of us the a-ha moments.

At work, I’m a coder, project leader, dreamer, realist, pragmatist, strategist. Call me a digital ideaist.

I doubt the people at Metro are bad people or don’t care about making good learning aids. They should let a designer build one good sign.

The Pop I would conjure in my passenger seat is about 47 years old: Confounded by lingering misery. He was by himself.