Colin Dullaghan

Okay, be strong. Strong strong strong. A steely symbol of resolve. Yes, there’s a room full of stuffed toys in there, and yes, it would be TOTALLY SWEET to just go Rambo on every last one of them, but c’mon, man: you’re a professional. The *best.*
What? What’s that you’re saying back there? Are you talking [...]

I would never have thought it, especially since I’ve heard it described as a “prime opportunity to have your neighbors eye your belongings with undisguised contempt,” but our garage sale on Saturday was actually the most fun part of moving so far.
After hauling our couches out into the driveway, poking a couple signs into the [...]

I would never have thought it, especially since I’ve heard it described as a “prime opportunity to have your neighbors eye your belongings with undisguised contempt,” but our garage sale on Saturday was actually the most fun part of moving so far.
After hauling our couches out into the driveway, poking a couple signs into the [...]

I have blue eyes.

Very, very pale blue eyes.
Picture pool water, or maybe a plate you would get in a diner. In addition, I have white skin, so every ray of light that crosses my path tends to do the same, predictable thing: ricochet off my cheekbones and pierce directly into my so-pale-blue-they’re-barely-even-a-color eyes.
So I [...]

Trying to sell your house is, well, a trying experience. There’s listing and packing and comparing and appraising and staging to worry about, and we haven’t even gotten to the inspecting and negotiating and counteroffering, or the loading and checklisting and driving and driving and driving parts yet.
But it’s all for the best, and even [...]

I get a lot of junk mail in my inbox. A lot. I’m not sure why, and I have all the filters in place, but to be honest with you I don’t even mind it so much anymore. In fact I kind of like it.
Sure it’s a little insulting to have every Tom, Dick and [...]

Okay, if everybody in the world was reading this site I might feel a little bad about doing this, but they don’t, so I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to go ahead, and I’m going to poke a little fun at this personals ad I just noticed on Craigslist, which is an ingenious and [...]

Okay, if everybody in the world was reading this site I might feel a little bad about doing this, but they don’t, so I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to go ahead, and I’m going to poke a little fun at this personals ad I just noticed on Craigslist, which is an ingenious and [...]

Okay, if everybody in the world was reading this site I might feel a little bad about doing this, but they don’t, so I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to go ahead, and I’m going to poke a little fun at this personals ad I just noticed on Craigslist, which is an ingenious and [...]

Okay, if everybody in the world was reading this site I might feel a little bad about doing this, but they don’t, so I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to go ahead, and I’m going to poke a little fun at this personals ad I just noticed on Craigslist, which is an ingenious and [...]

Okay, if everybody in the world was reading this site I might feel a little bad about doing this, but they don’t, so I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to go ahead, and I’m going to poke a little fun at this personals ad I just noticed on Craigslist, which is an ingenious and [...]

Okay, if everybody in the world was reading this site I might feel a little bad about doing this, but they don’t, so I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to go ahead, and I’m going to poke a little fun at this personals ad I just noticed on Craigslist, which is an ingenious and [...]

First off, it’s heavy. I can tell you that it’s heavy, and you can believe me, but when the vendor lady hands you that gargantuan smoked drumstick you’ll still emit a little involuntary grunt (“Woof!”), just like everybody else, and you’ll still make some self-conscious comment on the heft of the thing, just like everybody [...]

A few weeks ago, I took a motorcycle ride. It was a Saturday morning, the best time for a motorcycle adventure in my opinion, when the sense of being freed from the work week is still fresh in your mind. To jaunt off down the road at nine in the morning, when you’d ordinarily be [...]

A friend of mine the other day offhandedly mentioned that she was “planning to write children’s books,” someday. “When are you going to start?” I asked her, not really meaning to be a jerk and put her on the spot but to give her that friendly kick in the pants I often need myself.
She told [...]

Open the cabinet, take out the Folgers. Pull off the lid, there sits the tiny metal scoop, glistening against the dark grounds as the sun pokes through the window.
The rim of the scoop crunches against the coffee grounds, shoveling up its tiny payload. The smell hits you just as the last few specks tumble off [...]

Open the cabinet, take out the Folgers. Pull off the lid, there sits the tiny metal scoop, glistening against the dark grounds as the sun pokes through the window.
The rim of the scoop crunches against the coffee grounds, shoveling up its tiny payload. The smell hits you just as the last few specks tumble off [...]

Open the cabinet, take out the Folgers. Pull off the lid, there sits the tiny metal scoop, glistening against the dark grounds as the sun pokes through the window.
The rim of the scoop crunches against the coffee grounds, shoveling up its tiny payload. The smell hits you just as the last few specks tumble off [...]

Open the cabinet, take out the Folgers. Pull off the lid, there sits the tiny metal scoop, glistening against the dark grounds as the sun pokes through the window.
The rim of the scoop crunches against the coffee grounds, shoveling up its tiny payload. The smell hits you just as the last few specks tumble off [...]

Open the cabinet, take out the Folgers. Pull off the lid, there sits the tiny metal scoop, glistening against the dark grounds as the sun pokes through the window.
The rim of the scoop crunches against the coffee grounds, shoveling up its tiny payload. The smell hits you just as the last few specks tumble off [...]