Jase Graves

I got COVID when COVID wasn’t cool
Well, it finally happened. I got COVID! Then the headaches started, like my frontal lobe was hosting a rave party for Diet Coke and Mentos...
Becoming a Swiftie Dad, and other skills I’ve learned
Having raised three daughters, I’ve gained, in the words of Liam Neeson, “a very particular set of skills...
The world’s greatest inventions
A couple of days ago, I retrieved one (of about a hundred) of our family doglets’ chew bones from the seemingly unreachable chasm under my youngest and quietest daughter’s bed using an ingenious invention of my own making – namely a straighten..
When memory flails
Now that my age has surpassed the mid-century mark and I’m more ancient than virtually all professional athletes, everyone in my department at work, and even my pastor at church, I’ve noticed that the old memory is not what it used to .. Wait...
How I became a cat person
Disclaimer: No pets die in this column (but they sometimes smell like they did). “How did I reach this state? So do I. Unfortunately, I've never been a "cat person. Then there’s that special feline/surly teenager personality...
My New Year’s anti-resolutions
A few days ago, during one of those rare occasions when our whole family was together and my three semi-grown daughters weren’t nursing an iPhone while wearing universe-canceling headphones, my wife posed probably the most oft-asked question this ..
Haunted by the kids of Christmas past
Since two of my daughters are now in college and one is in high school, Christmas just “hits different”– as those crazy kids (and my not-so-secret, sort-of-but-not-really guilty pleasure, Taylor Swift) say these days...
Neighbors, start your Christmas lights!
Each year the weekend after Thanksgiving, I sense an innate urge to risk life, limb and public humiliation by festooning the exterior of our home with several hundred C9 incandescent lights...
Why do we fall for fall?
Yes, it’s that glorious season that so many pumpkin-spice addicts claim to be their favorite...
The year of the possum
According to my extensive research (approximately five minutes on Google when I should have been folding underwear), the Chinese zodiac system assigns an animal symbol to each year...
Things I’m glad I did
If you read my last two columns, you know that I’m now milking this one-trick pony for all it’s worth – including some mixed metaphors. This time, I’ll share a few things I’m actually glad I did­ – for now...
Things I’ve done – and wish I hadn’t
In my last column, I admitted to some things I’ve never done in my 50-something-year-old-dude-type-person life. So, of course, that discussion brought to mind a few things I’ve actually accomplished – or committed – and deeply regret...

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