The Place to Take a Humor Break
One day–let’s say it was the 50s, because these things happened back then–some people from the lower peninsula of Michigan rowed over to meet with some people from the upper peninsula. “Isn’t it wild,” one […]
SEEKONK, Mass. For Bernadette Worson, a 34-year-old mother of two, the projected “megastorm” that was supposed to hit New England this weekend required an all-hands-on-deck response. “My father was snowed in during the blizzard of […]
Making fun of the headlines today, so you don’t have to The news, even that about the Kimmel/Talarico YouTube interview, doesn’t need to be complicated or confusing; that’s what any new release from Microsoft is […]
Evelyn Waugh gave Edith Sitwell a pocket air-raid siren, which she would set off when people asked her whether free verse is more truly poetic than rhymed. The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn […]
NATICK, Mass. It’s a drizzly Friday in this western suburb of Boston, but the weather hasn’t dampened the spirits of a thousand participants assembled here for a twenty-mile walk into the city. The problem is […]
I grew up surrounded by females. My dad owned a women’s clothing store. Both of my sisters were girls, and my mom was a woman. We had two female cats whose names–Big Kitty and Baby […]
