Let There Be Light, As Long As It’s Quiet…

OK kid. Turn your damn lights on if you’re reading, your eyes are bad enough already. Don’t stay up too late, and don’t make any noise. Daddy needs plausible deniability, OK? “OK Daddy!” And we just don’t talk about why all my kids could define “plausible deniability” before they could write their names.

National Coming Out Day, Big Ugly Style

There are two kinds of people: happy and not. As long as people are working toward happy, not gender, not sexuality, not religion, not race, not money, not weight – nothing else matters.

Wake Up, America – It’s Time For Some Awesome!

I’m going to be asking for your support as I become Good Morning America’s next Advice Guru. America needs an infusion of awesome pretty badly and, like the man said, I’m just the Big Ugly Man Doll to give it to them. Together, we’ll take the Friday ManFAQ national. I’ll keep you posted as I move through the application process. Come on, America, let’s wake up to the Big Ugly Man Doll!

Monday, Miles 821 – 1200.
Destination: Home
Distance: 380 miles

Our road trip ended the way it started, with a Waffle House. Our waitress was a dusky-eyed, tattooed beauty named Carol, and she clearly owns the place. Perhaps not literally, but she knew everyone on both sides of the counter, all the orders, all the drinks, and every word to every song I played on the jukebox. I’m not sure what a girl has to do to look “dusky-eyed” at 0730 in the morning, but she did it.

Sunday, Miles 614 – 820.
Destination: Bowling Green, OH.
Distance: 207 miles

The imperative in the morning is to get food into Number One Son, so that he can have his medicine, which has been proven to dramatically increase the lifespan of children with his conditions, especially when driving long distances with them in the car.