Yesterday, at 5:21pm, our daughter Chloe Annabel was born. She weighs seven pounds and thirteen ounces. When she came out, she immediately spoke to us with a soft, squeaky cry. It was love at first chirp.
Her three and a half year old brother, Cole, excited to see her for the first time, kept […]
Pregnant Lady: I’m gonna make cupcakes tonight.
Me: Oh, yeah? For what?
Pregnant Lady: For my mouth. Is that a good enough answer for you?
Me (absorbing howls of laughter): That’s going on my website. Your name’s going to be “Pregnant Lady.”
The powerful and moving story of Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke reminds me why I tend to be so personally interested in the mechanics of the human brain, sometimes taking great lengths to apply that interest into my own discipline.
In 1983 my grandfather suffered a debilitating stroke which rendered the left side of his […]
I’m not exactly sure why, but more people than usual have been asking me about my Christmas card this year.
This one started with some direction from my wife, which she stated plainly enough to me one evening, “You’ve never done a Santa before. You should do an old-fashioned one with rosey cheeks.”
I suspect that […]
The other day I came across this book proposal on my computer, which I apparently wrote four years ago and abandoned for more sensible work at the time. Honestly, I vaguely remember writing it, but I must have been pretty serious about it. There’s like, a whole chapter outline and stuff.
Where I thought […]
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