The Place to Take a Humor Break
ARLINGTON, Virginia. Gladys Kneff, who rose from a lowly position in a secretarial pool to become the secret lover of a succession of U.S. Secretaries of Commerce, died here yesterday after a brief illness. She […]
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. Ray Sylvan has been assistant manager at Bay State Auto Parts for nearly a decade, and he’s proud of the extra steps he takes to do his job right. “When this coronavirus thing […]
LADUE, Missouri. Roy Griggins made enough money in his lifetime as a manufacturer of flanges and hasps to retire in comfort, but he still keeps a watchful eye on his bank balance. “My wife Peggy […]
A rainy April Friday. There’s just me and two cats, Rocco and Okie, three sullen males grunting their way through the day–as usual–while the wife’s out shopping for essential items. Milk, bread, a tall vanilla […]
The house is quiet, and so I lie down and try to take a nap. I’ve just dozed off when I feel the weight of fifteen pounds of cat flesh land on my chest. It’s […]
PLAISTOW, New Hampshire. If anybody can look on the bright side of things in this town of 7,609 near the Massachusetts border, it’s Amanda Byfurd, an avid collector of cloying ceramic figurines and a compulsive […]
WESTLAND, Mass. Centennial Park here is a favorite spot for dog lovers and their dogs, and never more so than the present as its wide open spaces attract canines and humans at their wits’ end […]
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,” […]
They were, in retrospect, a Periclean Golden Age; a time of innocence, but a time of experience as well. Like the Jazz Age, they burned brightly for only a brief period, but their embers continue to […]
WESTLAND, Mass. In this suburb of Boston, the streets remain eerily calm due to coronavirus social isolation guidelines, and yet green shoots of life appear in the midst of an otherwise-pervasive gloom. “There are deer […]