The Place to Take a Humor Break
Inspiration: Microsoft Word Templates: Letter Acknowledging Termination of Employment and Asking for Reference Microsoft Word recommends this: Dear Ms. Battereen: As you know, my final day at The Acme Rat Poison Company is fast approaching. […]
Most of the time, I hate cooking. It’s a lot of trouble and you have to clean up afterward, which is even more trouble than cooking. Result: a lot of takeout and a lot of […]
Sometimes it’s not easy being a woman on this ball of hardship that we call Planet Earth. Women face a multitude of challenges every day. From holding down a career to operating a washing machine, […]
Have you ever been on a job interview where the interviewer has pulled out a whole bunch of required questions? Have you ever had to sit there like a dummy because the only answer you […]
Stage Directors The average opera has several principal singers, a few comprimario singers (opera speak for bit players), a chorus and sometimes dancers. Some supernumeraries might also be hired to carry big stuff, sit or […]
Writers are weird. I didn’t know just how weird until I became one. From being an opera singer for several decades, I already had a head start on being weird. That was a big help […]
Conductor, noun (kǝn dǝk tǝr): A musician who plays no instrument, yet always gets top billing. Train Wreck, noun (trān rek): In ensemble music, the condition that results when one of the players or singers […]
Never put your shoes on the wrong feet. Your feet will become confused and start to walk in opposite directions. If you are a foot model for disgusting pictures on a podiatrist’s wall, don’t wear […]
My mother named me Kathryn, which was good, because it was a girl’s name. Being a girl, I was happy not to be saddled with a name like Gene, which I could have ended up […]
In the 50s and 60s, we Catholics divided the human race into two groups: Catholics and non-Catholics. Non-Catholics included Christians of other denominations, which we lumped together under “Protestants.”* We didn’t know the difference between […]