Colin Dullaghan

I almost called my mom tonight. I needed a little help with a writing assignment. It’s a radio commercial, about a college planning website, and I’m trying to write the script to sound like a real, honest parent reflecting on her performance so far. She opens by saying, “Diapers I was good at. Free throws, [...]

Now that we can carry our music collections wherever we go, and you can fit some *40,000* songs on a device about the size of a deck of cards, (Seriously, I hadn’t realized they made iPods so capacious these days – The 160GB model could theoretically take you through an entire summer without playing [...]

My sister Katie snagged me this sweet button from a preview of American Teen, a documentary filmed in the small Indiana town where Penny and I will soon be living: Warsaw, Indiana. It also apparently features some dude named Colin, undoubtedly the coolest guy in the cast.
She grabbed a whole handful of these things, actually, [...]

My sister Katie snagged me this sweet button from a preview of American Teen, a documentary filmed in the small Indiana town where Penny and I will soon be living: Warsaw, Indiana. It also apparently features some dude named Colin, undoubtedly the coolest guy in the cast.
She grabbed a whole handful of these things, actually, [...]

My sister Katie snagged me this sweet button from a preview of American Teen, a documentary filmed in the small Indiana town where Penny and I will soon be living: Warsaw, Indiana. It also apparently features some dude named Colin, undoubtedly the coolest guy in the cast.
She grabbed a whole handful of these things, actually, [...]

My sister Katie snagged me this sweet button from a preview of American Teen, a documentary filmed in the small Indiana town where Penny and I will soon be living: Warsaw, Indiana. It also apparently features some dude named Colin, undoubtedly the coolest guy in the cast.
She grabbed a whole handful of these things, actually, [...]

My sister Katie snagged me this sweet button from a preview of American Teen, a documentary filmed in the small Indiana town where Penny and I will soon be living: Warsaw, Indiana. It also apparently features some dude named Colin, undoubtedly the coolest guy in the cast.
She grabbed a whole handful of these things, actually, [...]

Vince approaches the gate to the baseball diamond, tugging the leash toward the chest-high chain-link fence, and I hesitate.
This wasn’t part of the walk. Nobody’s around, but I’m not even sure we’re allowed to go out onto the field, even though Vince has already pooped and is unlikely to repeat the feat.
Still, something about [...]

“Colin!”
“Colin!” It’s early on a Friday morning several weeks ago.
“Colin!” Penny has come running out of the bathroom as I, still in bed, am jolted awake and instantly thrown into a panic.
“What?” I’m thinking, but too groggy to say aloud. Did she see a bug? Sometimes she sees bugs in the bathroom. It’s way too [...]

“Colin!”
“Colin!” It’s early on a Friday morning several weeks ago.
“Colin!” Penny has come running out of the bathroom as I, still in bed, am jolted awake and instantly thrown into a panic.
“What?” I’m thinking, but too groggy to say aloud. Did she see a bug? Sometimes she sees bugs in the bathroom. It’s way too [...]

“Colin!”
“Colin!” It’s early on a Friday morning several weeks ago.
“Colin!” Penny has come running out of the bathroom as I, still in bed, am jolted awake and instantly thrown into a panic.
“What?” I’m thinking, but too groggy to say aloud. Did she see a bug? Sometimes she sees bugs in the bathroom. It’s way too [...]