Entries from June 2008

June 23, 2008

Word of the Day: Exposure

My daughter and I made a brief appearance on local cable television. Here’s a bit of advice. Never go on television with your teenage daughter to talk about sex. Just don’t do it. Even if it’s just a little local station. Even if you just wrote a humorous book on parenting and think that  a [...]

June 15, 2008

Word of the Day: Wing

“I have to make something for my “Chefs” final,” Lewis said.
I remember when they called it Home Economics. I made Snickerdoodles. I got a “D.”
Lewis wanted to make Buffalo chicken wings for his final project - “but without the blue cheese dressing and celery sticks,” he explained. “Just the chicken.”
We found a recipe that called [...]

June 5, 2008

Word of the Day: Stuck

Why are these tiny ships defying gravity?

Because they were on a shelf in my son Nathan’s room. He went away to college and left the little Mayflower and the Cutty Sark on the shelf with a lollypop that had a real scorpion imbedded inside.
The lollypop melted (it must be global warming) [...]