Thank You Club Unicorn

The response we've gotten to our post has been unbelievable. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Here is a message from us. We recorded it yesterday, but in the hustle and bustle haven't been able to post it until this morning.          ...

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Birthday Recap UPDATED

On Saturday I turned 32. It's kind of an unremarkable year, but I guess the main thing it means is that I'm now two full years away from my twenties. So probably I'm an adult now. Maybe. It also means I spent the morning looking up abdominal pain online because I'm...

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Like Father Like Daughter

When I was a kid, I liked to know things. I liked to know secret things. Anything that felt secretive. Or anything about people being sad. Or anything that people were doing.  Basically anything about anybody my parents were talking about. I remember asking my...

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Vomit–A Story of Romance

This is a vomit story in two scenes, and it's tied to romance. Are you ready? Scene 1: I was nervous because it was my first date with pre-Wife. We had known each other for many years--had grown up on the same street in Utah--and now both of our families lived in the...

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Handyman Part II–Garbage Disposal

I was planning on this being a series, and this is the second part of my flat tire post, but I ended up calling it "Stranded" because I forgot I was planning on making a series about me being a handyman. But it is a series. And this is Part II. And it's about a...

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Music

Okay, so you know how lately I find myself doing that thing where I sing and play the violin in the same song? It happened again yesterday, and when I say "it happened" what I mean is that I ordered some vocal sheet music online expecting to do a vocal performance...

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Male Pattern Baldness

Can somebody please explain this to me? I have a full head of hair. Not a single ounce of baldness. Yet, somehow, this has happened.  No, I am not wearing socks or ankle weights. Here it is closer up: News alert: it's physically impossible to take a picture of...

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Stranded

Recently I hit a pothole on the way to the gym. Not a big deal, right? I could hear that it had messed something up, but my tire felt kind of functional in that I wasn't driving on a rim shooting sparks into the night sky, and since I was almost there, I just finished...

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Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes

I think one could say that this post is a rebirth. I was gone for weeks. My brain was elsewhere. My sense of humor took a brief hiatus while I contemplated very deep and important mysteries like "why do I enjoy my daughter's lactose free milk so much?" and "just what...

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