I recently visited a mall on Black Friday. I wasn鈥檛 there to shop, but rather to observe the North American Lunatic in its natural habitat.When I wasn鈥檛 avoiding fist fights to get into the bathroom or crowd surfing my way to the Orange Julius stand, I found time to browse around, and I saw ...
Attention, Christmas shoppers and watch out Christmas shoplifters! It鈥檚 time for my third-annual Parental Misery Index (PMI) Toy Guide.PMI is my service to parents where I research the hottest toys of the holiday season and assign them a rating on my one-of-a-kind PMI scale from 1 to 10.An ...
Everyone has their favorite holiday, most would say Christmas, some may say Halloween and the ones that say it鈥檚 National Dance Like a Chicken Day on May 14 or National Worship of Tools Day on March 11 are normally shunned by civilized society.However, nobody can really say which holiday is ...
Parenting comes with a lot of repetitiveness, which helps us to adapt to routines.Some routines I found with my 9-year-old stepdaughter, Emma, over the years include the first day of school, the last day of school, hosting sleepovers, shooting flaming arrows in the night sky on New Year鈥檚 Day ...
Every artist needs a muse, something that inspires them to create a masterpiece or a disasterpiece in some cases.So, like car keys digging out earwax, I found myself digging deep in myself to find that oh-so frustrating 鈥渟omething to write about for this week鈥� as I stared at my blank ...
I鈥檓 the kind of guy who can be turned off from an entire experience over one little thing.For example, a blister on my foot has prevented me from streaking across the football field for the last eight Super Bowls, lack of money in my bank account has prevented me from buying tickets for those ...
