My Grumpy Mother Nature Song
Is it just me, or has Mother Nature been, this year … grouchy? Surly? Cross? Cantankerous? Yeah, I thought so, too. Maybe we brought it on ourselves, the way everyone has been storming at each […]
Month: May 2025
At Memorial Service, Employees Learn Too Much About Late Colleague
NEEDHAM, Mass. When United Blogtronics employee Chuck Blednarski passed away last weekend following a life-long struggle with Osgood Schlatter’s Disease, his co-workers were genuinely saddened despite the fact that they knew very little about the […]
Ripping the Headlines Today, 5/30/25
Making fun of the headlines today, so you don’t have to The news, even that about Moody’s downgrading US credit, doesn’t need to be complicated or confusing; that’s what any new release from Microsoft is […]
My Dark Horse Run for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award
It’s hard out there–to coin a phrase–for a guy who’d like to quit his day job and write. You look for any advantage you can get. A few weeks ago I read about a guy […]
Writer’s Block? Get Nacreous
If you’re a writer, or if you want to be a writer, you’ve probably suffered from writer’s block. Consider Henry Roth, to take just one famous example. In 1934, when he was 28, Roth’s novel […]
Laundry Wars
If you’ve been married for more than six weeks, sooner or later you’ll face one of the most contentious challenges a couple must confront: deciding on the proper way to do laundry. While both men […]