Jase Graves

09/20/2022

My adult life has been full of transitions–from single to married, from childlessness to fatherhood, and from virile coolness to cringey blobfish. I now find ... Read More

New school clothes for dad

09/05/2022

Now that my eldest and middle daughters are off at college dashing my prospects for retirement, and my youngest daughter has started navigating the pubescent ... Read More

And then there was one teenage daughter left at home

08/22/2022

In recent days, the hormonal distribution in my household has become slightly more balanced as two of my three teenage daughters and several lines of ... Read More

If you can’t beat the heat, join it

08/09/2022

East Texas is hot, and not in the way you compliment your wife when she’s mad at you for performing an epic cannonball while she’s ... Read More

One night in The Big Easy-as pie

07/25/2022

It’s time for another installment of “Places You Should Visit While You Can Still Bend Down to Tie Your Shoes without Making Involuntary Bodily Noises”! ... Read More

Portrait of a colonoscopy

07/12/2022

There have been countless jokes, comedy routines and humorous articles written about colonoscopies, but I’m a firm believer that, like Mexican food restaurants, there can ... Read More

Snacks, steel and civil rights in the Magic City

06/28/2022

It’s time for another installment of “Places you should visit before your loved ones start picking out your burial underwear!” Recently, my wife and I ... Read More

Stranger things in my daughter’s bedroom

06/13/2022