The Place to Take a Humor Break
LADUE, Mo. Kiki Williams, Cindy Steptoe and Marci Creighton are frustrated. The three young housewives are up for membership in the Junior League chapter of this upscale suburb of St. Louis, but they’ve hit a […]
It wasn’t that long ago–in geological terms–that I came to a fork in the road of my career path. I’d graduated from college with a degree in philosophy, but faced an uncertain future. All the graduate […]
I think I might need to crash on someone’s floor again, for a few days. Jill Y left me with instructions to get the imaginary dog, micro-chipped. I really think she should know better, at […]
Some people are talented musicians. Yet others can take a crochet needle and some thread and create beautiful things. I have a talent for picking out and choosing the slowest checkout line in any store […]
Artwork by Eli Connaughton. Idea/text by Bill Spencer. Eli Connaughton as artist website: http://www.chickenwisdom.com/ Eli Connaughton as writer website: http://www.eliconnaughton.com/
The envelope was slim, as they all seem to be these days, and so I opened it up expecting the usual brush-off: “Dear Poet/Playwright/Writer: Thank you very much for submitting your work to the Alice […]
The world is against me. My son is approaching his teenage years — he’ll be 10 next month — and his friends are pushing me out of the center of his universe. It’s not fair […]
Quick background: The Pittsburgh amusement park, Kennywood Park, did a grand re-opening of their Noah’s Ark attraction which was a big deal because it’s one of only a handful of dark, fun houses left in the United States […]
