The Snooze Button Generation

"I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you s...

Midlife crisis? I'm pretty sure the word crisis  is too harsh to describe my deal. In my thesaurus, synonyms are catastrophe, calamity, ...

Editor's Note: The Snooze Button Generation blog would like to thank the outpouring of kind words and donations to the GoFundMe fundrais...

Listen. I feel a bit uncomfortable asking you to donate to my brother's GoFundMe fundraiser , but I am. Fred has acute CIDP. He cannot g...

Quick: Fill in the blank: Saturday morning _____________. Think about it. Think about it. What is it for you? For me, it's real simple: ...

I can't really put into words the overwhelming emotions that hit me when one of my groomsmaids, Sophie, walked down the aisle, moments b...

Is TV as good as we think it is, or are we just being manipulated? That's the question I'm pondering as I'm watching two fish-ou...

New and improved! One word that sticks in my mind while updating  100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend  is ephemeral. With our ever-changing wor...

After reviewing 25 books new to me for 100 Nonfiction Books I Recommend , I must conclude this: Reading is for suckers! One of the Snooze Bu...

Attending a youth soccer game can be an education in parenting gone wrong. You might see parents demeaning referees, caring too much about t...

Many Americans seem pretty darn ethnocentric. They accept Cheese Whiz, football and Fudruckers as facts of life, when they are just part of ...

Jenny Odell taught me that bird watching is actually bird noticing. We're probably not going to see them, but we can listen and notice. ...

If you watch a movie from the '80s, like Splash or Big or Back to the Future , I bet you react how I do. You'll think, wow, that mov...

At a certain point during The Biggest Bluff , I looked up and thought, "Am I the mark here? Am I being manipulated into liking this boo...