I turn 46 today. To kick off my year of bravery, I answer 46 of your sometimes hard, sometimes deeply personal, always challenging questions.
Without further ado, here are the answers to 46 of your questions…
- Grandma June
- Steven Page rejoining Barenaked Ladies
- Coolidge, of course
- A Herman Miller Aeron
- My Uncle Jim’s backyard
- Portland followed closely by Oklahoma City
- Prime Rib of Beef Bone-In 26 ounce at The Palm
- Three days
- Once… no, twice
- Yes, with the Darth Vader carrying case
- Never
- Carl
- Battle of the Network Stars
- At the corner of Caribou and Bear Streets in Banff
- Philippians 4:4-9
- Mr. Obrecht
- The left one
- Tellurium
- Anything from my mom’s kitchen
- Jim Henson and David Foster Wallace
- John Cougar Mellencamp’s Scarecrow Tour
- “When did you write that last part?” “In the car.” “Freak.”
- My brother’s Trans Am… there is no number 2
- Detasseling corn after a hard rain
- Hmm… more than 50… less than 100…
- Galaga, Xevious, and the Funhouse pinball machine
- Father Harold T. Mooney
- New Orleans… in a U-Haul… with 24 other guys
- Yes
- “Oh, these are my friends.”
- Nope.
- I know, right!?
- Roadhouse
- “Don’t eat the big white mint”
- Uncle Bud’s Pond
- Boo.
- Who?
- My daughter’s enthusiasm
- My son’s questions (which are, no offense, infinitely better than these)
- John Denver and The Muppets
- “You cannot expect someone else to change his behavior until you’re first willing to change your own.”
- Current River and Trigg Tower
- “She told me her real name!”
- Approximately 62 vials of deer urine
- Reis
- Grateful