The Place to Take a Humor Break
One of my most colorful ancestral relatives was my mother’s fifth cousin twice removed, Hildi Heulenschrei, the opera singer. Hildi was born plain Hildegard Schmidt in some little Dorf in Bavaria, around 1890. Nobody knows […]
DOS FLEDENS, Freedonia. Vergloz Deprens is a father of two young children, but they won’t see him this morning when they wake up. “He is called away, middle of night,” says Olglz, his 32-year-old wife. […]
Written by: Paul Lander Artist: Dan McConnell
WEBSTER FALLS, Mo. Dorinda Walthrip was an English teacher in this town’s public schools for forty-five years, retiring a decade ago to a quiet life in an apartment that overlooks a public park. “It’s nice, […]
There are times when I do something so stupid I hesitate to admit it to anyone. (This is why I don’t like about the proliferation of cell phone cameras. I’d rather have some control over […]
Written by: Paul Lander Artist: Dan McConnell
MADISON, Wis. Gerry van Earle can remember the first time he agreed to be part of a medical experiment as if it were yesterday, even though it has now been twenty years since he first […]
