Few Bricks Shy

Complain only when you have to. Some people love to complain. On a Facebook page for parents run by my daughter’s college, one woman c...

He's lucky he's cute. Tony hasn’t messed in the house for a long time.*  Even so, his superpower remains: Given all the p...

I don’t have it. I wish I did. I am fascinated by people who do. Generally speaking, Texans are much better at it than people...

My son got his driver’s license this week. (Watch out, world!) I was once again struck by how rude the people at our DPS (Texan for D...

I totally get this. ( source ) One time, when my daughter was learning to drive, she got into the driver’s seat in a Dairy Queen parkin...

Growing up, I had the world’s worst dentist. He wasn’t just a bad dentist, he was a bad person. I had lots of cavities as a kid, whic...

I sometimes record the interviews I do. It’s never really worked well. Recording and transcribing interviews is, for many reasons, a ...

Someone's a Halloween grinch. It’s as inevitable as crisp weather and fall leaves. Every year, worry warts , control freaks and al...

Yup, I really do wear this.   Would it kill you to say something nice? No, but it can be tricky. I routinely experience a situati...

  So, how weird am I? I like to sit out on our front porch. The thing is, we live in a neighborhood of close-together houses with...

© Diana Thomson OK, so most of us know, even if we don’t like and even if we don’t do it, that dog owners are supposed to pick ...

I will always remember the time my daughter’s math teacher told me she was making progress working on my daughter’s habit of “negative self-...

Ever comment on someone doing something absurd and have the person you’re with sniff that they don’t believe in saying anything bad about a...