The Place to Take a Humor Break
PLAISTOW, New Hampshire. It’s Monday, the day when golf courses are traditionally closed but available for charity golf tournaments, and the Dun Roamin course here is the scene of a recent entrant in a crowded field that […]
HOLLYWOOD. The reality-based distraught-spouse genre is a crowded one on cable these days, with worried wives a sidebar in a number of series that focus on tuna fisherman, firemen and bomb squads. “Some say it’s […]
Written after falling asleep reading a Thin Man mystery by Dashiell Hammett, featuring those hard-drinking, wise-cracking sophisticates Nick and Nora Charles. I felt lousy when I woke up because I didn’t have a hangover, so […]
BEMIDJI, Minn. Bob and Carole Hulvig both graduated from high school in 1969, and both have a fifty-year reunion this year. “It would be fun,” says Carole, “except for one teeny-tiny little detail.” Beautiful downtown […]
BOSTON. Ten-year-old Timmy Kwiezscki has a dream–to become a uniformed police officer patrolling a beat–but it’s not clear he’ll ever realize it. “The chances of out-living a case of Stage 3 Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease are zero,” […]
Xavier Fernandez came to court in Middle Village, N.Y. to fight a minor charge. Then a cross-eyed cat jumped on the table. “You got any problem with a cat being in this hearing?” said Hearing […]
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island. Residents of the smallest state in the Union often feel like country cousins at the Thanksgiving Dinner of American politics since their vote is worth only four electoral votes for President. “It’s […]
The day of your wedding should be the happiest day of your life, or at least the day of your first wedding. But the customs, folkways and by-laws of matrimony are so darned confusing, it […]
BOSTON. Donna Del Vecchio works in the accounting department of a large law firm here, and says she has “the most thankless task in the entire American economy”–approving partners’ requests for expense reimbursements. “$95 for a […]
I got the news in April, just as I was reviewing the final short story submissions by my students at Pumpsie Green Community College in Boston. That old wives’ tale/urban myth about professors grading papers […]