The Place to Take a Humor Break
A high school in Texas requires female students to have prom dresses pre-approved by a school coach. The Wall Street Journal As I looked out the window of my tiny, bare-bones office onto the mesquite-speckled […]
HIBBING, Minnesota. As tributes marking Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday appeared in the national news today, word spread around this town of 17,000 in northeastern Minnesota that its most famous local musician was being celebrated for […]
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 […]
High school graduation time is here, which means that over-achieving young women across America are preparing for the next phase of their lives–matriculation (which is not as painful as it sounds) at an expensive four-year […]
Pope Francis ordered officials to get the Holy See’s budget under control after a doubling of the deficit. The Wall Street Journal “Pope, Al Weiskopf, Amalgamated Widget-Tech, damn glad to meet ya.” It’s Friday, and […]
WESTLAND, Mass. Arlene Douthat used to feel, in her words, as if she was “all alone” in dealing with the difficulties she faced in life. “There was nobody I could turn to,” she says as […]
There was, above all the others, Nora. Because of our shared history of kidding around, I could make her break up across a conference room just by lifting an eyebrow at the right moment in […]
PAMPA, Texas. Duane Dunham hasn’t had a day off in two weeks, but the twenty-two-year-old native of Hereford in Deaf Smith County isn’t complaining. “It’s great to be workin’ agin,” he says in his flat, […]
BOSTON. It’s 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning, but Jason Evritz is hard at work at Permanent Records, where the early morning hour translates into less expensive studio time for his new album. “I’ll sleep […]
It’s Friday, and I’m “working” remotely from home. There’s just me and two cats, Rocco and Okie, three sullen males grunting our way through the day–as usual–while the wife’s out shopping for essential items. Milk, […]