Hidden from view behind a Carl’s Jr. billboard and masked from the senses of search dogs by Axe body spray, an evil public relations team is huddled around a conference table chugging 5-hour energy drinks and plotting world domination. Much like any attempt to rule the world, their plan is...

Growing up in the Methodist Church, it seems we were regularly celebrating communion in new and different ways.  I appreciated the diversity in approach, as each new form somehow brought out a different aspect of the act of remembrance.  One form, however, I remember more for the laughter it produced,...

For the past three weeks I have spent a lot of physical and mental energy on latte art. Why latte art? Because after an hour of pouring drink after drink and drinking drink after drink the act of pouring a rosetta with silky steamed milk into the crema of a freshly pulled espresso melds with the overdose...

Baseball’s spring training season is a spring cleaning of sorts. Players are knocking rust off and brushing up on fundamentals, managers are polishing lineups and fans are soaking up sunshine. However, baseball might want to consider cleaning out its vacuum hose because players are still having trouble...

There’s something very special about giving something a name. Naming a new baby especially is a huge responsibility, and an exciting and grounding experience for every parent. Will the name I love for my baby still be okay when they have grown up? Should I use a cherished family name, or the weird...

Editors Note: For anyone who hasn’t read The Hunger Games book or movie, this review contains spoilers.  I have never read the Hunger Games books so I wasn’t a “super fan” or anything. But I did go to a midnight showing of the movie simply because my 15 year old wanted to go,...

News of the record-breaking five-hour-53-minute Australian Open final match greeted me this morning as I checked email.  I still can’t wrap my mind around such an intense competition lasting that long.  Can you even imagine? The marathon showdown delighted fans around the world, and rightfully...

  I was listening to sports radio on the drive to work the other day—The Dan Patrick Show. Patrick said he was going to interview Todd Marinovich later in the hour. Marinovich is a former NFL quarterback recently featured in an ESPN documentary, “ROBO QB: The Making of the Perfect Athlete.”...

It’s been almost 26 years since I left Louisiana with my parents, and I still really miss the Mardi Gras season. Mardi Gras is one long, enormous party – in the best, and sometimes the worst, sense of the word. Every single day for a few weeks leading up to Fat Tuesday there is something exciting...

Nobody seems willing to state the obvious, so I guess that responsibility falls to me. As usual. Football has peaked. The only direction left to go is down. There. I said it. Now, I realize that there exists “out there” thousands of proponents of conventional wisdom, wisdom that posits this: “Football...