Tag Archive: relationships

Not Having Kids Yet and Making Your Own Decisions

A buddy of mine and his wife had a baby boy on Mother’s Day (just a few days ago – that’s him up there!). He’s a little, five-pound beauty that just melts you. I’m a big baby guy, and my wife is crazy about babies, so we enjoyed just hanging out with them and passing…

Breaking Through Self-Imposed Limits

When I was in high school, there was this girl that I had a monster crush on. You can relate – one of those girls that is gorgeous, but not attainable, at least not by you. For four years, I admired her from afar whenever she happened to walk by. I was never too broken…

Try Something New: Turn Off The Cable For a Week

I’ve talked a lot about television on this site, and for good reason: my first foray into building my own DVR/media server a few years ago is where I created the term “practical nerd” (hey! that’s the name of the site!). But I also do it because I realized I was in a scary cycle…

The Last Samurai, Hawaii, and the Meaningless Life

It’s been said that writers get weird inspiration for stuff to write about at the most inconvenient times. For me, that happened last month on my honeymoon while lying in bed watching TV. We had just caught the tail end of The Aviator (a quality movie!) and saw that the next movie on was The…

No Matter How Bad It Looks, You Can Make It Better

It was December 31st, 2009, and I was sitting on the floor of an apartment full of boxes. My cats, Rusty and Chandler, wandered around rubbing their faces on the boxes while I leaned my head back against the wall and gazed out my giant living room window for one of the last times. I…

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