On Happy Moments

I’m going to skip ahead a little in The Importance Of Living for this one, just because this is a section I think would be worth revisiting several times.  Let me start with a quote and then explain more: CHIN'S THIRTY-THREE HAPPY MOMENTS Chin Shengt'an, that great impressionistic critic of the seventeenth century, has given …

My Media Consumption, Guns, and Pugs

On my media consumption: Just finished The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell for book club and it was pretty amazing.  Jesuit priests go visit aliens and trouble ensues.  If you can think of a more perfect sci-fi concept, please do, and then write that book, and then I'll read it.  But til then, y'all should …

New Dogs, Who Dis?

I've already posted this story to Facebook, but I figured it was worth repeating here. We got new dogs!  Two of them! They are eight year old pug sisters named Sasha and Cookie.  The wife is actively trying to find a new name for Sasha (on the right), but I like it so I've been …

Tiger’s Weekend

For the past three years my wife's family has had a tradition.  On Mother's Day (or this year as near as we could get) her uncle rents us a suite at Comerica Park, complete with buffet of food, many beers and fantastic view of the game, and we go (with our mothers) and overdo the …

Place a fork in me

Because sometimes at the end of the week you just don't have anything left in the tank.