JJ Vincent likes how random and unexpected his Facebook connections with people in past parts of his life are.
I Dare You to Define Normal: The Parenting Times, They Are a-Changin’
JJ Vincent looks at families these days, and all he sees are totally new kinds of normal.
When the Grill Used to Be The Man-Zone
JJ Vincent looks at outdated stereotypes in advertising: Pretty food in the kitchen? A woman is cooking it. Junk food, sloppy food, on the grill? Chances are a man suddenly appears.
Warning: I Indulge in Age and Gender Inappropriate Behavior
JJ Vincent on the joy-inducing freedom of letting go of what others define as inappropriate.
Thanks, Facebook, But I Don’t Need a Makeover
JJ Vincent hates it when Facebook suggests things he should “like”. For one, the words “should” and “like” don’t go together. And two, having Facebook do your thinking for you is kinda creepy.
Things I’m Not Supposed to Be Scared Of (or “Icked” by): I Can’t Be the Only One
JJ Vincent just can’t get the fear of some things out of his brain. Does anyone else feel unmanly for saying so?
Rubber Duckies, You’re the Ones: How to Freak People Out in 178 Easy Steps
JJ Vincent has a thing for rubber duckies. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
‘Hi, Dad! Nice to See You!’ The Ghost of My Father is Very Near.
JJ Vincent’s father died four years ago. But to JJ, there is still a very real part of his father here in the present.
Glitter Toes: Yes, I have them.
For the most part, JJ Vincent strives to be invisible. But then there are those toes!
So Many Books, So Few Choices: Would I Read That in Public? Would You?
JJ Vincent ponders the choices men have to make about what they do in public, and how much other people’s perceptions really matter.
I Don’t Know How to Talk to You: Conversations Among Men
JJ Vincent wants to talk amongst men. But someone decided he didn’t have a man card, and now he doesn’t know how.
Don’t Judge a Person by Their Trailer. Or the South by its Stereotypes.
JJ Vincent shares what he’s learned about the South—and that it’s not as bad as you think. Honest.
City Boy, Country Boy and the Creepy Crawlies In My Food
JJ Vincent learns an important lesson about fresh farm produce “Me no like corn worms.”
Just Dance, and Dance, and Dance, and Dance-Wii love these games.
JJ Vincent learns that public humiliation is nothing compared to the fun of dance, dance, dancing. —- I was not an early adopter of the Wii gaming system. When it first came out, I played a few games at friends’ houses—sports, auto racing, ridiculously fun rabbit games where you got to shoot things with plungers.…
Monday Night’s Alright for Fighting…Over Yarn
JJ Vincent has to run the Black Sheep Dirty Santa at his weekly knitting group. And he discovers you haven’t fought until you’ve fought in a bar over yarn.
Tony Stewart, You Mend and We’ll Knit
JJ Vincent tries to convince the still-broken-legged NASCAR driver Tony Stewart that he needs to join the legions of men who knit.