Dear Everyone who is currently complaining about winter when you were all like, ‘oh we love the cooler weather – we can’t wait for winter to get here’ back when I was bitching about it being September last year – shut up. Especially all you winter-hardened Yankees. This is your weather. I’d never complain about it being summer too long. Thank you, Jim Mitchem
Everything you know and love will wither away and die. Dust. And despite what your ego tells you, you probably won’t be remembered past the next generation. Even if you have children who have children. Even if you erect a gold-crusted mausoleum to yourself. That is unless you do something utterly remarkable that changes the world. Which you won’t. Because it’s hard enough making it through every day planning for dinner – much less planning to change the world. Not…
Earlier this week, my 12-year-old daughter, Agatha Rose, wrote the following poem during her social studies class where they are studying the age of imperialism in Africa. When she read it, the class applauded. I couldn’t not post it here.
My wife deserves someone better. Someone who wakes at 6, runs 5 miles, starts breakfast, and then goes to work at General Motors or Bank of America all day where he pulls down 250K so that she can drive a Mercedes to her tennis lessons at the club. Someone safe. Someone stable. But instead, she has me. A risk-taking alcoholic daydreamer from questionable stock who doesn’t like to cook and who would rather sleep in a little than attack a…
My children constantly surprise me. Last month when we were visiting Walt Disney World we splurged and let them play in the carnival arcade at Animal Kingdom where there is Whack-A-Mole, a Ring Toss, and a bunch of other games you pay a buck to play for your chance to win a stuffed animal. Cozette, our youngest at 10, took one of her allotted three passes and headed for the game where you squirt a watergun at a hole and…
Dizzying. Mysterious. Erotic. Melancholy. Uncontrollable. Raging. Romantic love is the most powerful force on earth. http://youtu.be/UAOxCqSxRD0 *** Jim Mitchem
