Author: Con Chapman

Contacts between aliens and earthlings are increasing, and becoming hotter all the time! Unfortunately, most romantic advice columns just assume both parties are human–that’s where Your Alien Love Advisor comes in! Alien Love Advisor “Panel […]

QUAD CITIES, Iowa.  Sally and Jed Griffin like to think of themselves as cosmopolitan, even though they’ve spent most of their lives in the Midwest.  “We lived in New York for a few years when […]

A Las Vegas escort agency owner says he’s getting about forty applications every day, the majority from women running from the wreckage of lost finance jobs.  Boston Herald. It was late as I headed out the door […]

An orange tabby cat beat professionals in a stock-picking competition.  He made his selections by throwing his favorite toy mouse on a grid of numbers allocated to different companies.                                                          The Guardian   I’m “working” […]

When I was a boy my mother instilled in me a love of American history.  George Washington was the Father of Our Country, she told me.  Abraham Lincoln was the Great Emancipator.  Ulysses S. Grant […]

If the past is any kind of prologue, America’s white-collar work force will return to their jobs this week through a kind of human resources mine field. Valentine’s Day was Sunday, which means the next […]

He brought his aesthetic approach to the inner life of colors in a series of 10 poems commissioned in the early 1960s by one of his clients, Fuller Paint Co. Obituary of Ken Nordine, “word […]

WELLESLEY FALLS, Mass.  It’s a quarter to 8 in the morning in this leafy suburb of Boston, and Washington Street–the main artery that takes commuters to the Massachusetts Turnpike–is bumper-to-polite-bumper.  “It’s a traffic jam, but […]

HARTFORD, Conn.  This city of 123,000 is known derisively as “America’s File Cabinet” for the many record-heavy insurance companies that make their home here, a tag that has long been a sore point among civic […]