The Place to Take a Humor Break
One of my most colorful ancestral relatives was my mother’s fifth cousin twice removed, Hildi Heulenschrei, the opera singer. Hildi was born plain Hildegard Schmidt in some little Dorf in Bavaria, around 1890. Nobody knows […]
1. The human shall get up out of bed at whatever obscenely early hour the cat decides he/she is hungry. There are no exceptions. 2. The human shall not put the cat on a diet. […]
Okay. I can understand why medicine bottles are made hard to open. Children get into everything, and we don’t want them to experiment with medications they have no business taking. So yes, medicine bottles should […]
In every life, there comes a time when one has to get rid of some of those possessions that have, over the years, multiplied like oversexed rabbits. Oh, but all those things have a use, […]
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed below in no way correspond to the opinions of the human who typed this. I typed it because I am the only creature in the house who has opposable thumbs. Furniture […]
Singing opera is not for sissies. Take, for example, the opera Tosca by Puccini. This show is filled with opportunities for stage accidents and other disasters. It includes two murder scenes, one with a knife […]
I have a love-hate relationship with riddles and brain teasers. On the one hand, I’m not very good at solving them, especially if I am expected to do it fast. On the other hand, I […]
How I Ended Up East of Eden[1] by Eve What was I thinking? It isn’t as though we didn’t have enough to eat. We had a whole smorgasbord there in Eden, made up of all […]
Have you ever received one of those pieces of mail inviting you to enter sweepstakes and possibly win a humungous sum of money? Of course, you have, unless you have been living in a cave […]
Life hands us some real winners sometimes. Me, I have a family of Esuohites living in the crawl space under my front porch. No, I don’t know how they got there. I haven’t asked them. […]