Chick-fil-Fray
To all Chick-fil-A supporters:I can't write a lot about this topic because it's just too much for me to handle. I'm incredibly saddened by the reports of "packed" Chick-fil-A restaurants across the...
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She's Always A Woman to Me
I'm 99% positive that I got my first period in the month of July. July 1993, to be precise, shortly after my 13th birthday. It was a momentous occasion, and I can still remember the moment I sat down...
View ArticleOut of (Gun) Control
Last week, six people were shot to death while at church. There's a good chance you're reading this and had no idea the incident even occurred. After all, it didn't happen at a midnight screening of a...
View ArticleSpoiler Alert
Almost a year ago, I thought about starting a blog about the things I've learned from television. Because I am a television watcher. Always have been, and hopefully always will be. I wrote a post, then...
View ArticleAn Origin Story
Last month, during our first ill-fated trip to see Mount St. Helens up close, we passed a "museum." This place is housed in someone's manufactured home and promises to tell you how Mount St. Helens...
View ArticleConversation with My Wife
After watching Samantha Bee's awesome piece about abortion and Republicans.Me: The uterus is behind the cervix, right?Katie: Yes. The cervix is the opening to the uterus.Me: Okay. So I know what that...
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Dear Merritt,
Right now you're in a hotel room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hopefully asleep, while your grandparents take care of you. I am not there. Neither is Momma. And we miss you like you will never...
View ArticleIn Which I Get Entirely Too Personal
And You Don't Read It Because It's Too LongI've spent years thinking I'm a pretty damn good writer. Years of assuming that the only reason no one has paid me to be a writer in real life or recognized...
View ArticleWhy I'm Leaving Facebook
I wish it could be more deep and meaningful and eloquent than this, but the fact is that it comes down to three words: I hate Republicans. Hate everything about their pompous, holier-than-thou...
View ArticleFunerals for Babies
(I've written about this before. I guess I will have to continue until something changes.)Sometimes when I'm doing mundane things, I think about all the people all over the world who are dying in that...
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An Atheist and a Gentleman
The right wing idiots, the ones who label themselves Christians, have really gone and done it this time. Mike Huckabee, some guy from the "American Family Association," and I'm sure many others, have...
View ArticleHappy Holidays to My Wife
All she ever really wants from me is a letter. A note. Something that shows that I've thought of her and taken the time to write it down. My other blog, that one I rarely update, sometimes meets that...
View ArticleThat Month We Thought My Wife Might Have Breast Cancer
It started with a pretty severe pain in her right breast. It had been a mild pain before December 19, but it decided to kick up a notch that day. So she didn't work out with me, because the jumping...
View ArticleThey Are Trying to Destroy Us All
I finally watched parts of the "Sandy Hook was a hoax" video. I'd only read about it until today. I am flabbergasted by the stupidity of what seems to be A LOT of people. I will not link to it. I hate...
View ArticleCome Talk to Me
When I was a kid, my mother took baths. So did Katie's mother. We have that in common. I'm not saying my mother never showered. I'm sure she did. But what I remember are the baths. And I specifically...
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What's In A Name?
Around the time that I first met Katie in elementary school (before I forgot about her existence entirely for two decades), I was big on signing my name the way my granddad signed his. The point in the...
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Rapidly Coonin'
In my lovely wife's latest blog entry, she details the story of the art piece she created for our bathroom. It's currently my favorite piece in our house, though I think everything she (or we) creates...
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Dear Merritt,
I had every intention of writing you for your fourth birthday, but now here we are on the last day of October, and I'm just now sitting down to write. Time has slipped away from me. I had a plan of...
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Something Stinks. And It May Be Huffington Post.
I originally posted this over on Huffington Post, as many of you may know. The backlash there was pretty spectacular, and while I'm trying to focus on the fact that more than 15,000 people "liked" it,...
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Don't You Love Your Wife?
We designed this shirt. We would like one of our own. In order for us to get one, and for the other eight people who have ordered to get theirs, we need to get to a total of 10. Surely somewhere out...
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