What app keeps you from saying something dumb?

Because I’m a helper, I was helping out with some relationship advice on Twitter yesterday afternoon.

Namely, by explaining that guys LIE ALL THE TIME.

My answers to travel questions

I like reading the travel Q-and-As in the Boston Globe, even if I don’t know much about the subject, like today’s with Aisslinn Nosky, concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society.

Since I’m going to Chicago in a few weeks, I figured I’d take a crack at answering the questions myself.

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Things I learned in college, but not in class

“Many students, nervous about a new environment, follow friends from high school or people whose demographic backgrounds match their own into homogeneous cocoons.“

— Frank Bruni, ‘How to Get the Most Out of College,” The New York Times

A guy I graduated high school with also went to Utica College — for one year, anyway, before he transferred — and before I could even bring up the topic, he made one thing very clear.

We were not going to be roommates, and he didn’t even want to hang out all that much.

No pinch, but I grew an inch

As someone who has spent most of his life in the front row of pictures, I have some sympathy for the guy who wants so badly to be tall, he tells people he’s 6 feet, even though he’s only 5-feet, 8-inches.

But only some — I mean, c’mon … it’s one thing to add an inch or so, but four is just silly.

However, if he’s patient, maybe he’ll be able to do what I did …

… add an inch when he’s 45.

Farewell to the old car, hello to the new one

The car didn’t hear me say it had done good.

Of course it didn’t. It’s a car; any feelings or sentiment were only going to come from from my wife or me.

But as it was being hooked to the back of the tow truck — not even on the flatbed because a truck was already there — I felt it important to acknowledge the 2003 Toyota Corolla that had been our longer-drive car, and run incredibly well right until the end.

Because it had done good. It had done real good.

The odd couple of vacation planning

My wife knew I was going to give her a hard time about it, but she asked anyway.

Should she pack shorts or jeans when we go to Chicago?

A new place to find me

The blog is still the same … although perhaps you’ve noticed the new name. (That’s Silly pictured above. He was such a good kitty.)

However, I’ve set up a Twitter account strictly for the purposes of shamelessly plugging what I write, and writing that I think is interesting.

You can find it at @a_silly_place. 

Give it a follow, and tag me if you write stuff you think is cool!

No accounting for taste (except for mine, of course)

Because everyone’s a sucker for lists, I spent some time the other day scrolling through NPR’s list of “The 200 Greatest Songs by 21st Century Women+.”

There were plenty of artists in there who I liked — the highest-ranked on my iPhone is Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” at No. 20 — but my favorite artist (and not just woman artist), Jennifer Nettles, was missing.