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My other tie

“Don’t you ever wear something other than a black tie?” my students asked. “Why sure,” I told them, “I do, in fact, have one other tie that I’ll wear to work.”

Five blog ideas today

Seriously. Five. I woke up early (translation: wife woke me up early), spent time in ye ole coal mine, shouted like a madman at the children, openly made fun of coworkers who secretly patronized me behind my back (and plotted death plots and other forms of madness), travel to the comic book store and the [...]

How to play toddler tackle football

There is only one rule in toddler tackle football, and it can be summed up in the words you say to toddlers playing tackle football with you.

I’m too sexy for my mices.

So yeah. I sit in the Writing Center at a table, except I don’t sit on the long end. I sit on the half end because that means I’m out of the way of all the people who pass between the “teacher’s computers” and that table. It’s 6:00 AM because I dropped off my wife [...]

Grubby hands, greasy paws, tackle football

I’m helping raise a generation of hooligans.

It’s New Year’s Eve, where do you go?

Somehow, Wife and I managed to get invited to a number of New Year’s Eve celebrations. All of them are dry, of course, because we don’t drink, but the question remains– what to do?

It’s just you and me, breasts

The wife is out, and I know we have enough time if we only start now. You say you’re cold? That’s ok. We can thaw through that chilly exterior. Just come over here.

I am Kristi Yamaguchi

I was there, on the ice. My cousin and my wife were there, too. They witnessed it happen.