About The Ugly Volvo

I am a writer and stand-up comic raising two children in Jersey City.  When I stopped writing in this blog (in 2017) I was the guardian of a small, thoughtful boy with a long curl that fell into his eye and a one-year-old baby that had bad hair and screamed all the time.

Several years have passed. I am now the parent/guardian of a tall, thoughtful, tween and a 7-year-old with a beautiful, full ponytail and a comically enormous front tooth.   I am married to someone obsessed with volcanoes and tropical storms who is working through an ongoing addition to Duolingo.

I love to read and I am always exhausted.

I’m not sure what else is relevant, so here is a version of the “About Me” I used for a tutoring service I used to work for. And yes, I know it should be “a tutoring service for which I used to work.” Sometimes I will end sentences in prepositions. I know it is wrong. I am sorry. But sometimes it sounds better. Sometimes I will also use “their” when I know I am supposed to use “his/her.” Please know that every time I do it I feel terrible.

About Me
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I watch a lot of documentaries on Instant Netflix. I love The World According to Garp and everything by Shel Silverstein and I read The New Yorker but mainly I just read it for the cartoons. I have a phobia of jewelry. I have a horrible sweet tooth and could easily eat nine boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in one sitting.  Sometimes I daydream about living in other countries and then immediately go online to look up the size of the spiders in those countries.

I wear almost the exact same outfit every day. I am married to someone who speaks three languages and there are days when I feel like I barely speak English. I love stand-up comedy and Far Side cartoons and books about science. When I like songs I will obsessively listen to them on repeat for hours or days until everyone nearby wants to throw me  out a window.  My first car was an old, ugly Volvo that I loved so much and that’s why the blog is called The Ugly Volvo. I wish there were a more interesting story behind it but there isn’t.

I have a book out called Welcome to the Club: 100 Parenting Milestones You Never Saw Coming, available through Chronicle Books.

If you know someone having a baby, please buy it for them, but tell them not to read it until they have had the baby for a couple days.

If you enjoy my posts, like The Ugly Volvo on Facebook or follow me on here (theuglyvolvo.com) or follow me on Twitter. I have an Instagram account also but I’m not even going to bother to link to it because I’m too lazy.  I’m sorry.

If there’s a post you like, please share it with friends as I love writing but am notoriously bad at promoting things. I try to post around once a week.

 Here is a hastily taken photo of me, the baby, the dog, and the humidifier I kept meaning to return because it stopped working.