Posts in the category “My Life”

The easiest way to teach siblings how to count is to give them a different number of M&Ms with dessert.

Literally any task can be made dramatically more complicated with the simple addition of a six year old narrating your every move on a karaoke microphone set at maximum volume.

Fun activity: Any child who licks their elbow can open one Christmas present early.

I just realized it’s probably been 25+ years since I heard a song start to slowly lose tempo and grind to a ghoulish, warbled halt because the batteries were dying in my cassette player.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

In which I give you the recipe for the best cookies ever

Banana Republic 1987 Holiday Gift Workbook

Banana Republic 1987 Holiday Gift Workbook

When I was in elementary school, these are the clothes I imagined I’d wear to work every day.

“The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ‘Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.’ And the sign that something’s wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.”
Thornton Wilder

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.