Several years ago, my wife got me a massage for Christmas. Not the kind where she forgot to get me a gift, and so sat under the tree and offered to rub my shoulders, but the kind at an actual massage place, where professional masseuses work. She was worried that I would not like this […]
Category Archives: Throwback Thursday
How I Learned to Drywall
This week I am spending my mornings running music at my church’s Vacation Bible School program, and while I am already about to pass out from exhaustion, I’m having a great time. There is something supremely awesome about watching your kids run around the same building you used to frequent as a kid yourself, as […]
Why I Started a Blog
You know, I had been thinking about starting a blog for years, back when it was cool. Bloggers were taking off, getting book deals, becoming popular and widely read, and it seemed like maybe something I could do. I loved writing, and I had won various writing awards in my school days, so why not […]
The Story of the Midnight Dragon with the Backward Head
I promised to tell you this story a while ago, and since it is still Mother’s Day week, this seems like as good a time as any to tell you the tale of how my mother came to the rescue of her poor son, and the midnight dragon with the backward head. It all started […]
Microwaves are Not the Same as Stoves, or How I Ruined a Parent Teacher Conference
When my parents got divorced, I took over a lot of responsibilities as man of the house. Despite being only eight years old at the time, I took this very seriously and I was given a lot of well-earned responsibility. At first, after school would end, my siblings and I would all end up at […]
My First Voice Lesson
Today I finished up my first year of teaching voice at an official college. Last night two of my students sang in a recital, and this morning, between hospital drop off and pick up times for my son, I taught my last lessons of the semester. Now that I am on the other side of […]
Girlbusters
As some of my faithful readers will already know, I enjoy a good parody tune. From the moment I heard my first “Weird Al” Yankovic song, I was hooked on this idea that you could take someone else’s song and make it funnier. I have done many parody songs and videos over the years, some […]
Maximum Freedom, Minimum Responsibility
Do you know what kids always want? To grow up. To be a little older. To be a little taller. To be a little bigger. This is because they are kids, and they have no idea of the crushing responsibility that awaits them as an adult. Although they may have some idea. Ruby told me […]
I Used to Think I Was Quirky
Personalities are now mental classifications. Remember when people used to be “jerks,” or “spacey,” or “forgetful,” or “melancholy?” Now they all have something. Now they have oppositional defiant disorder, or ADHD, or depression. I’m not saying that these are not all real things, because they totally are, but sometimes I miss the days when I […]
I Dropped a VCR on My Head and Kicked a Nurse
You kids today, with your Netflixin’ and your iPhonin’ and your Amazonin’, have no idea how hard it used to be to watch a movie! When I was a child, your choices of movies were whatever was playing in the theater, and whatever was on TV. Once a year we got to watch Mary Poppins and […]