Better than My Own

I think about many things while washing dishes every night.  Requiring as it does a few moments of undisturbed attention in the otherwise a hectic after-work routine of making dinner, cleaning up, playing with the kids, bathing them, and wrestling them into bed, it’s a good time for thinking.  Most of what I think about …

How to Explain to Children

If you have kids, you’ll eventually find yourself trying to explain the mechanics of solar orbits or the behavioral patterns of honeybees or the applications of Bernoulli’s effect.  As a lover of science, I always give the scientific answer first, but it’s only because I find it amusing. My 5-year-old is just learning subtraction, so …

Everything My Wife Hates about Me

I’ve noticed that articles of wives complaining about their husbands have been gaining in popularity, with some going viral, so I figured I’d save Christine the terrible hassle of listing all of my faults, writing an article about them, and publishing it in a national newspaper (or instagram) and do it myself.  It’s a long …

Not a Morning Person

Stay up late enough, past The Late Show, past the The Late, Late Show, and television changes.  Except Sportscenter, which is a universal constant.  For one, every commercial is for an adult hotline or male enhancer.  And the Science Channel switches over to the hard stuff, the histories of chemistry and the explanations of Quantum …

Love and I Love You

I didn’t tell Christine I loved her until the moment I asked her to marry me.  Maybe that sounds cruel to you. Maybe it was. Two years of ups and downs is a long time to go without any verbal reassurance.  For me, it represented a belief that love was something higher, more serious, more …