6 Nick Claussen blog posts are equal to 24 regular posts!
The world has changed a great deal since the 2016 Presidential Campaign started back in 2014, but soon life will be getting back to normal.
Now that the election season is (hopefully) pretty much over, though, I wonder what we are all supposed to do with our time now? What should we do instead of worrying about how bad things will be if our candidate doesn’t win?
Continue reading “The end of the election season brings up new questions and my lunch”
Is there anything better than a new recycling container?
Of course there is, but I’m still pretty excited about the new recycling container that I received free of charge from the city this week! It’s like Christmas came early!
Continue reading “New recycling containers are filled with excitement!”
Don’t you hate it when you are having a perfectly normal conversation and then suddenly you have no idea what happened?
Often at the end of a long day, I will turn to my wife or the children and let them know that I am thinking the same thing they are.
“You’re welcome,” I say quietly.
They usually pretend to not know what I am talking about, but I know they must be thinking, “Thank you, Nick, for being such a great and cool husband/father/stepfather/pet owner/neighbor/writer/co-worker/athlete/model citizen/Muppets fan.”
I don’t mean to brag, but there’s really no way around it. I am pretty amazing.
The true story of a day spent working on a bathroom sink, as told in the style of the great book, “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.”
If you give a Nick a dripping bathroom sink, he’ll ignore it for a while hoping that the drip will just go away.
When the drip doesn’t go away, he will eventually go the sink and take a few things apart to try to figure out what’s wrong.
When he takes the sink apart, he won’t be able to figure out what’s wrong, so he’ll put it back together.
The world is full of questions that cannot be answered.
Why are we here? What happened to the dinosaurs? Why did I tell my friend I would help him move?
Now that I am older and have more wisdom, time and hair on my hands, I have begun to focus more of my energy on pondering these and other questions.
Continue reading “Important questions about cookie dough, socks and wingdings”
America, it’s time for a change.
Currently, many people in the country and throughout the world enjoy reading acclaimed columns in a wide range of blogs, newspapers, websites and magazines. These articles are often written by authors who are regarded “insightful,” “funny” or “good spellers.” Or “people who don’t write sentence fragments.”
All of these people are not Nick Claussen.
Nick Claussen doesn’t worry about being labeled as “grammatically incorrect” by the “Washington insiders” who “use a lot of quotation marks.” No, Nick Claussen only worries about one thing when he writes, Nick Claussen.
Continue reading “In this divisive political season, here’s an idea we can all support!”
The 2016 Summer Olympic Games will have 306 events in 28 sports, and will dominate the national media over the next few weeks.
I decided to take a quick look at each of the games to learn more about them, and to offer a few thoughts.
When I woke up early this morning and jumped out of bed, I felt like I was ready to take on the world with song in my heart and a skip in my step.
“Ouch,” my song began. “That’s a lot of pain in my feet. And why do my legs hurt? That’s not so neat.” (I still need to work on the harmonies, but I think I’m off to a terrible start.)
More and more as I get older, I notice how getting up in the morning often hurts, how bending over to pick something up requires intricate planning, and how I make those “ooophhh” and ‘Umphff” noises way too often when I sit down.
Continue reading “A few thoughts on the joy of turning off lights, getting older and Pokemon Go-ing”
Do you ever have one of those days when everything is going so well that it is starting to scare you?
That happened to me a few weeks ago, and frankly it still makes me a little bit nervous.
It was Father’s Day and nearly everything went perfectly. It sounds terrifying, right? I got to be so uncomfortable after a few hours that I was pretty sure I would be hit by a bus if many other things went right.
Why oh why do so many good things have to happen to me ?!?
The day started early in the morning, as many days do. Continue reading “A day when everything went perfectly, and it was terrifying!”
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