August 13, 2025
I was in a restaurant the other day that had a long counter, and it’s possible that people were leaving trash in a spot where there […]
July 30, 2025
In a wonderful James Thurber cartoon from many years ago, there’s a depiction of a man angrily yelling into his telephone, “Well, if I called the […]
July 23, 2025
One of my favorite stories about Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, who was inspiring in so many ways, is that he dropped out of high […]
July 16, 2025
I saw an interview recently with Jerry Seinfeld, where he shared that he wrote the entire Seinfeld series with a Bic pen and yellow legal pads, […]
July 9, 2025
I saw someone with a t-shirt the other day that said, No Pain, No Pizza—a play on the phrase No Pain, No Gain, which comes from […]
July 2, 2025
In the wonderful movie It’s Kind of a Funny Story, based on the autobiographical book by Ned Vizzini, the adolescent main character Craig winds up as […]
June 25, 2025
One of my favorite concepts is from the world of science and it’s called the signal-to-noise ratio. It is pretty much what it sounds like: the […]
June 18, 2025
I read an article recently about a new trend inspired by those little free libraries you’ve probably seen at the edge of people’s lawns. This new […]
June 11, 2025
I was at breakfast with my father one weekday morning at a deli that he regularly went to. When we walked in and sat down, they […]
