Try as I might, there’s simply no way I’ll ever again bear witness to a pow-wow of my face and my feet. At 40 years of age, I’m not even half as flexible as I once was, so sadly, my toenail-biting career has come to an end. A moment of […]
I had only been gone for two years but somehow managed to fall in love in that short period of time. When I returned to the nest, in desperate search of a free place to crash before beginning the next chapter of my young life, I wasn’t alone. After moving […]
This humorously sad story appears in the book Men’s Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny by Alisha Gaddis. It is performed here by me, the author, as a way of editing it during the writing process. Everything in this story is true, unfortunately. I hope you enjoy On Bended Knee […]
I guess it makes sense, but that doesn’t make it any less painful. I’m a writer now. That’s where life has taken me in the last half decade, and so it would figure that I’d need it all spelled out for me inside the college-ruled lines of a 12 page […]
Now that my oldest child is 11 years old and has her own phone, my wife and I have gleefully reached the point as a married couple where we can leave her in charge while we go just around the corner for a bite to eat. Date nights are back, […]
When people get old, dear children, they may begin to accidentally omit key pieces of relevant data from their cherished anecdotes or they might embellish the fragments still somehow lodged into the crumbling passageways of their feeble minds. Or both, such as in this short story of the early days […]
Maybe I’m struggling with my lapsed romantic side. Maybe I’m just a sucker for a sweet and simple public expression of one’s love. Either way, Jesse Hale’s Post-It Note Love Letter video to his wife Holly, part of the Give It 100 challenge, puts a smile on my face, well […]
A charming, newly-minted husband took the Giveit100 challenge by doing something funny to/fun with his bride every day for 100 days after their dreamy honeymoon phase was over and the time-suck of everyday life began to extinguish their flame. This video is about the sweetest thing you’ll see online today. […]
