As he prepared for the final sermon before his retirement last month, my dad assembled his four sons for a project that would...

When my wife and I bought our house almost three years ago, there were numerous features that made us go batty for the property. For one,...

Someday, when my now-infant son is old enough to ask rambling questions that require similarly rambling answers, he’ll sit for a fireside...

Somewhere out there, likely on the lonely plains of North Dakota, lives a lovely lady named Carol who is owed a long-belated apology from...

When I think about summer, I think about baseball, and this always forces me down a rabbit hole where I'm confronted by my most...

Long before the Disney behemoth introduced early-nineties audiences to the likes of Ariel and Aladdin, I was pretty content to watch Lady...

Life, as the saying goes, is messy. And never was it messier than on a recent morning, when the fates conspired to roundly foul up my...

“I used to be ‘with it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m ‘with’ isn’t ‘it.’ And what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to...

When I was youthful and flighty and pretty stupid, my New Year’s resolutions were also youthful and flighty and pretty stupid. This is...

In the modern Christmas classic Love Actually, one of the many subplots concerns fading crooner Billy Mack, who hopes to stave off the...

I have a college friend who went by the nom de plume of Vocks, and telling the history of our friendship requires the reveal of both the...

When I was still at the mercy of my parents’ most befuddling whims, I’d sometimes find myself in embarrassing situations that had me...

When I was but a bright-eyed babe of this world, my mother was a prodigious collector of refrigerator magnets. Most of these magnets were...

You, as a reader, likely don’t need someone like me to tell you that the internet is a cold, terrible place. Yet, for all the world wide...

I have a few standing theories, some of which can weather even the most critical of analyses. For instance, try to poke holes in my...

I distinctly remember the first time someone called me “cheap.” It was on a date with someone nice but ultimately forgettable, and I was...

I can’t say I’ve thrown many haymakers in my day, but I certainly remember the first. The punch in question occurred before a basketball...

It seems that every Independence Day brings news that small parts of several Americans have died: fingers, eyeballs, and eardrums,...