I'm a South Dakota humorist whose humor column appears in newspapers in eleven Western and Midwestern states as well as nationally in Exceptional People Magazine. I'm the author of two the humor books including "I Didn't Know You Could Make Birthday Cake from Scratch, Parenting Blunders from Cradle to Empty Nest," published by HOPress.
Forget tea leaves and palm reading. Fortune cookies have always been my preferred method of forecasting my future, because even if the fortunes don’t come true, I still get a nice lunch and a cookie.
When I tell the waitress, “I’d like a salad,” I really mean, “I’ll ORDER the salad. What I’d LIKE is a double cheeseburger, fries and a chocolate shake.”
Incomprehensible medical bills and insurance paperwork are the main reasons many poor souls come successfully through illness and treatment and then go ahead and die anyway.
I eat ice cream for the same reason George Mallory said he climbed Mount Everest: Because it’s there. Also because I like it. And it’s safer than mountain climbing.