So, why was I in Barnes and Nobel at 9:55 p.m. frantically searching for a copy of The Crucible by Arthur Miller (the special Dover edition with the deleted scene)? If you don’t know the answer, you’re obviously not a parent. My sixteen-year-old son is a tragic victim of the Educational-Industrial Complex. Without regard [...]

  Tuesday, 6:15 p.m. I’m so excited. We’re going to repaint the bathroom and I want to blog the whole experience so that I won’t forget a single wonderful moment. We need to repaint because the original color â the color we’ve lived with for the last fourteen years â is the exact same shade [...]

  It’s not easy being honest. Especially when you honestly want to dismember the person ahead of you in the checkout line. My wife and I dashed out to the new local Gigant-o-mart (recently built approximately 2.6 miles from the old local Gigant-o-mart) for a few vital grocery items; Cheetos, Poptarts, and two skeins of [...]

  Your mission — and you don’t have any choice about accepting it — is to go under deep cover and penetrate one of the most ruthless, politically charged environments in the world today … a typical American Business Office. Should you succeed in infiltrating this complex and frequently chaotic organization, your objective is to [...]