Category Archives: Tiny Threads

The world would be vastly improved if we still taught children how to write a proper letter, and how to wait for a response.

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Phone calls are like meetings: largely unnecessary and better managed with an e-mail.

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Where is my spoonful of sugar for the medicine of life being doled out each day?

While quite intent in my pursuit, I need a merry tune to toot.

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The only thing worse than a party guest who arrives extremely late is a party guest who arrives in any way early. 

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Piece of advice: I can be just as amusing when I’m not agitated.

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After scouring the whole Price Chopper for a pack of plain mini-marshmallows for some hot chocolate for Noah and Emi, I finally settled for the bag of pastel-colored beauties seen here. At the check-out, the cashier was waxing rhapsodic about the pretty marshmallows. 

Me: “It’s only because you don’t have any plain white ones.”

Cashier: “Aww, you’re man enough to be comfortable eating pastel marshmallows.”

At times like this I wish I could hand out a card that would instantly convey my history so she could see what a foolish thing that is to say. But how could she ever know? How could anyone ever know…

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I’m always surprised by the power of a mimosa on a Sunday morning.

Don’t pooh-pooh the mimosa.

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Drinking La Croix sparkling water makes me feel fancy and idiotic all at once.

That also happens to be my resting state.

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It’s October third. 

And it’s Wednesday.

Whatever. I’m getting cheese fries. 

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Is it not disturbing how we seem to be setting children up for a lifetime of cartoon cannibalism?

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