The Place to Take a Humor Break
What does #BeLikeTrump mean? Well, darlings, it’s a hashtag that superfluously, exaggeratedly, monumentally, and exponentially glorifies your pompous view of yourself as seen through the eyes of a self-important despot, and is intended to cause […]
On that night, on that horribly frightening night, in my home, where I should have felt safe, I didn’t. Because on that night – on THAT night, everything in my life changed – EVERYTHING! Searching […]
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. This is my first confession. My Catholic grammar school opened the year I entered the second grade. And during that year I learned a very important lesson. Everyone […]
The world as we know it will end with one simple act. People have predicted the world’s end probably since its beginning. And others claim that the world itself won’t end – the world as […]
As I sat in my 5th Grade English class, I slapped both hands over my mouth to prevent words, begging to be released, from erupting. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings, but I also […]
On July 15, 1969, six days before I celebrated my 18th birthday, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. One month to the day after that eventful birth, the biggest historic phenomenon of my […]
Striding across Randolph heading north on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue on my way to work one day in the early ’70s, a complete stranger (as opposed to an incomplete stranger) stopped me in the middle of […]
Like most people, I have a problem with nonsense. Usually the bigger issues, like the current political circus, bother me, but last week, the problem was more personal. And in order to reveal to you […]
I understand how the Universe works now. In my early years I was anorexically skinny, and I thought I looked ugly. I did everything in my power to gain weight, even going so far as […]
Forgive me if you’ve already watched the program I’m about to reveal, but in my defense, because I don’t have cable and because I get most of my entertainment through Netflix (my antenna allows me […]