The Blog
This is where I write about things that no one is paying me for. Sometimes it’s about being a parent. It could involve insights about content marketing, or books I’ve read, or why I think playing pretend with other grownups is one of the best hobbies ever. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s sad. Most of the time it desperately needs an editor.
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Bathtub Poop
On reaching the wrong kind of parenting milestone. So here’s a real gross story. I’d planned on writing about something else entirely for today’s installment, but as I’m sitting here watching Shaquille O’Neal get put through a table in a wrestling match, I thought maybe instead I should tell you about my kid’s latest, greatest…
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Charlotte Day
Today is one of the most emotionally complex days of the year. Here\’s this year\’s version of me talking through it. TW: Miscarriage, Infant Loss Today—February 26, 2021—is “Charlotte Day.” This is an extremely special day in our household because it’s the day that Erin and I became parents for the first time. Just after…
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Fashion Show
I was thinking about clothes today and remembered the time I was in a fashion show. One of the weirdest moments experienced during my first tenure at Express—back in 2007 after they closed down all the men’s stores and folded us into the existing women’s ones—came in the spring, when Eastland Mall decided to hold…