SIX OF THE BEST… types of columns I wrote in 2017
The more you practice, the better you tend to get. Sports, art, whatever. I've been writing this column for almost four full years, and I feel like my work has, on the whole, improved. Maybe [...]
SIX OF THE WORST… episodes of The Orville
For the most part, even when The Orville is bad, it's still pretty good. I actually enjoyed a lot about these episodes, which qualify as (in my opinion) six of the worst episodes of the [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… episodes of The Orville
I'm not a huge Doctor Who fan (although I appreciate the show when I see it), but one thing I do envy them is the Christmas specials. The season ends, and there's nothing for a [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… ways to improve customer service in medicine
As you may or may not know, both my wife and I have had surgery in the past couple of months. Both were outpatient procedures, and we're both fine. And for the most part our [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… streaming originals I watched this year
With the advent of streaming services, and the increasing budgets that are going toward original content for them, I've found myself watching more and more shows that just don't exist on traditional TV. Usually because [...]
SIX OF THE WORST… Star Trek: the Next Generation episodes so bad that I couldn’t let my daughter watch them
Star Trek: The Next Generation was, in general, a really good show. However, there were a few episodes that I just cannot condone showing to my daughter. Here's six of the worst of them. [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… Star Trek: The Next Generation season seven episodes, according to my daughter
My daughter and I recently finished watching Star Trek: The Next Generation (my wife joined us for a good chunk of it too), and I figured I would squeeze a couple of columns out of [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… changes my wife thinks the NFL should make to their rules
I'm a huge NFL fan (although it gets harder every day with all the crap going on in and out of the league). My wife wasn't, at first -- still isn't, as a matter of [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… ways to support your writer friends when they publish a new book
We're now two days out from the release of my new novel, After the Apocalypse. I'm pretty excited about it. I've been working on it for six years -- well, actually, I had it done [...]
SIX OF THE BEST… times the hero and the villain teamed up
Let me caveat this right now by saying that I cannot possibly name all the hero-villain team-ups that have ever happened. That's literally impossible. And I'm sure that some of your favorites will get left [...]