The Place to Take a Humor Break
Pamela Toler’s Women Warriors: An Unexpected History highlights lesser-known women who have gone into battle, such as Maria Vasilyevna Oktiabrskaya, a Russian mechanic in World War II who drove a tank christened “The Fighting Girlfriend.” The American […]
A law passed recently in Virginia permits notarizations using video or audio conference technology. An iPhone app has been developed to provide remote service by a 24-hour team of Virginia notaries. The Boston Globe […]
Dance, according to Robin Collingwood, was the original art form, and are you really going to argue with a guy who has been referred to as “the best known neglected thinker of our time”? I […]
WESTLAND, Mass. Millicent “Millie” Hawkins has been a tenth-grade English teacher at this town’s highly-ranked high school for the past twenty-five years, but before that she was a student here, and a noted “chrome polisher,” […]
It was May of my senior year in college. Everybody was coasting, knowing either what they were going to be doing the next year, or that they’d be doing nothing. Except for one guy, Tom. […]
She says she needs a vacation to a warm and exotic clime but you’ve heard it before and will hear it again– and woman doesn’t know her own mind! No, what she really wants down deep inside […]
A children’s book author was thrown off a flight when he began swearing about a delay, using the f-word. News item. You know, people think being the best-selling author of the Pokey Little Bunny™ […]
Marriage counselors increasingly tell couples in relationships that have gone stale to “fake it until you make it,” but who can afford high-priced “experts” with professional training? Ask Your Fake Romance Advisor for guidance in […]
It’s Wednesday, “hump” day. You probably know the feeling I get at this point in the work week; you get up early every morning, day after day, go to work, tap on your keyboard, yell […]
CHARLESTOWN, Mass. Over the course of his life Butchie Dorr has tried a variety of techniques–some legal, some not–to keep his body and soul together. “I scalped tickets for awhile, then I caught on as […]