by spencer | Dec 27, 2022 | Family
How was your Christmas? Mine was barfy Tate is a barfy kid. Colorado, California, the Netherlands. If he’s been there, he’s barfed there. (Our apologies to the street in front of the Anne Frank House.) It usually happens when he falls asleep in the car. So we do our...
by spencer | Jan 1, 2020 | Family
A Spaceship Ride to Heaven I had my first kid when I was 25. The next day my hair started falling out. Then my family doctor said I needed glasses. (It was all quite traumatic.) I looked up the closest opthamologist and ended up with an old guy in an even older...
by spencer | Dec 23, 2019 | Entertainment
Fav Four Books of 2019 I am not a book critic. I don’t know what’s new or hip or popular. I doubt I even have very good taste. But I do know what I like. Here are my fav four of 2019. Beastie Boys Book Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz I’ve always been a sucker for...
by spencer | Dec 16, 2019 | Entertainment
The Amazingly True Story of Gerry’s Giant Pickle I have a friend named Gerry. When he smiles like this, he kinda looks like this. And when he dresses up for Halloween, he looks like this. He’s a double black belt in Aikido, which means he could easily kill a...
by spencer | Oct 31, 2019 | Entertainment
Trick’s on Me Traci always reads a scary book in October. And this year, she informed me, I’d be reading one too. “We’re going to have a book club. Just the two of us!” she said. “’We’re going to read Hex. I’ll read it in English and you can read the Dutch copy...