Wisdom for Dummies
If you want to run into every boss and old boyfriend you’ve ever had, just go to the grocery store with bed head and a ragged T-shirt that says Real Women Sweat.
Classmate Updates I’d Like to See
Every three months, like clockwork, I suddenly experience an overwhelming feeling of inadequacy. It happens when my high school alumni newsletter arrives. I went to a private all-boys’ military high school, the Albany Academy, founded […]
Scooter & Skipper Learn How to Make a Bra
Middle of the summer and my kids–Scooter, the younger, and Skipper–are starting to get bored with their usual routine. Too much “screen time”–TV, video games, computers–and their eyes have taken on the dull glaze of the […]
Making Things Perfectly Clear
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has caught a whole lot of flack, for calling ICE detention centers on our southern border “Concentration camps”. We like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez as she grew up in the Da Bronx. Well sort of, […]
Let’s Move That Thermometer, People!!!
From HO editing staff: Click on the second cartoon image to read it in full size! It’s always worth that click!
HO Writer Focus: Bill Y “The Legendary Legend” Ledden
As always in the summer, we like to highlight as many of our writers as possible. First up is Bill Y “The Legendary Legend” Ledden. Bill Y hails we think from Ireland–somewhere around Dublin. I […]
Publishers Call Time Out on Young Writer in Brooklyn Fiction
NEW YORK. In a sign that even the world of belle-lettres is not immune to the wave of xenophobia that is sweeping the nation, the Association of American Publishers today called for a “time-out” on […]
Stan’s Birthday and Who Cares?
I have a love-hate relationship with riddles and brain teasers. On the one hand, I’m not very good at solving them, especially if I am expected to do it fast. On the other hand, I […]