It has taken me a while but I’m starting to learn that whenever I think everything is hunky-dory in the world, I should check with my wife, because it is probably not. That whole Mars and Venus thing – with women speaking a different language than men – my wife tried to explain it to [...]

My least favorite thing about Christmas is that everyone expects gifts.  The same thing goes with birthdays.  You’ve lived another year and so you expect people to give you gifts.  At least with Christmas you are expected to also give gifts.  Expected.  Expected. It is the whole expectation thing – giving and receiving – that [...]

Women like to give men a hard time for not remembering anniversaries, birthdays, etc. My personal feeling is who cares if you miss the exact date – aren’t you 30 for a whole year? And isn’t it your fifth year of marriage the whole fifth year? And why don’t women tell you that the 12th [...]

Do yourself a favor right now: Count your hands. I’m serious. Count them. Now count your children. If you have more children than hands read on… A while back we decided to stop at the mall so my wife could use a gift card she received for Christmas. She went to her store and I [...]

I have occasionally had to use the women’s restroom. Not the big public restrooms with lots of stalls – I am talking the one-person-at-a-time room that you lock behind you. It doesn’t make any sense to me that it has to be labeled one way or another since only one person can use it anyway. [...]