Proud to Be a Boomer!
My father grew up in a tiny bungalow house with his parents and five siblings. He had to share a room with his brother, and the girls had to share another room. I guess they […]
Author: Kathy Minicozzi
Kathy Minicozzi is an opera singer turned aspiring writer, who lives somewhere in New York City. In other words, she's weird, but harmless. She is the author of "Opera for People Who Don't Like It," in which she turns the world of opera and its performers upside down while, at the same time, making it understandable to non-opera lovers and making everyone laugh.
Friday the Thirteenth! Bah! Humbug!
I am not afraid of anything! Well, I’m afraid of falling from great heights and scary amusement park rides. And rats. Let’s not forget rats. Oh, and creepy crawlers, including spiders. I don’t care how […]
How to Write Funny: Self-Deprecating Humor
Where else is a humor writer going to find a better wealth of potential laughs than his/her own life? Nobody knows your life better than you do, because you’re the one who has been inside […]
The Fictional Life
They say that literary characters take on a life of their own in the minds of their creators. This is true. What happens, though, if characters created by another writer invade your life and your […]
Diary of a Dieter
October 10, 2015 I have just come from my friend D’s house, where she showed us the pictures she took of our trip to Oyster Bay in August. I saw myself as the camera sees […]
The Life of Harmony
My name is Harmony. I’m little. I’m hairy. I have whiskers on my face and claws that I can extend and pull back in. If you haven’t figured it out already, I am a cat. […]
How to Use Movie Quotes in Daily Conversation Just to Make a Point
Eloquence is a gift that most of us, at one time or another, find lacking. In cases like that, there is nothing wrong with stealing a quote from a book, a play or a movie […]
The Ancient Deities Support Society and Dysfunctional Family Primal Therapy Group
I have an unfinished novel that I plan to finish eventually. I don’t know when this will be. It will be sooner if I don’t get sidetracked with other projects. In the meantime, I thought […]
Ten Politically Correct Terms for Nasty People
Political correctness is rampant these days. I predict that it will eventually reach its zenith (or its nadir, depending on your point of view) and we will have to be careful even with the terms […]
The Day the Coffeemaker Exploded
Inspired by “The Night the Bed Fell,” by James Thurber One of the most memorable days of my working life occurred the day I made the coffeemaker blow up. A couple of people in the […]