The Place to Take a Humor Break
SOMERVILLE, Mass. Maggie Turbek is a writing coach who learned the hard way the perils of caring too much. “I turned in a magazine article a day late because I wasted a whole Sunday on a nuclear […]
In 1977, the creator of the world’s largest malted milk ball had it notarized. The Boston Globe I have to admit, many years after the fact, my mom was wrong. “Get your notary license, it’s […]
Jack Garner gazed out over the farm that had been in his family for three generations and let out a sigh of exasperation. He looked down the rows of curly leaf parsley, often used as […]
Looking for a fun hobby that is also “profitable”? If you love nature and toxic chemical fumes, taxidermy–the art and science of stuffing (dead) animals–may be just the thing! Here are queries Mr. Taxidermist pulled at […]
A cool Monday morning in May. I wade through the lighter-than-usual trash as I emerge from the Au Bon Pain at South Station bearing my large iced mocha latte–$4.46 with tax–and think about how different […]
LAS VEGAS, Nevada. Capitalizing on the runaway popularity of the World Series of Poker, Harrah’s Entertainment today expanded its franchise contest from men and women to man’s best friend as the first World Series of […]
HOLLYWOOD, Florida. Conchita Aramaio, often referred to as the “female Jackie Robinson of jai alai,” died yesterday after a brief illness. She was 95. A native of Navarre, Spain, Aramaio broke jai alai’s sex barrier […]
As a boy, I was fascinated by tales of the necessity of certain mental and physical functions. If a person didn’t dream at night, I had read, he or she would go mad the next […]
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 […]