Life in the Good Old Days II
You think life is hard nowadays? You don’t know what hard is. I am a Baby Boomer. My father helped win World War II in Europe while my mother kept the home fires burning. My […]
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.
Life in the Good Old Days
Don’t let any of the over-55 crowd tell you that life was better when they were growing up. It wasn’t. I know, because I was there. We didn’t know at the time how miserable we […]
The Middle-Aged Toddler With the iPhone
I have a thing about phones. They are a necessary evil, like paying taxes or getting your teeth filled. Email is one of the greatest gifts the 20th Century gave mankind, because it freed us […]
Electing a President is Like Buying a Brassiere
If it holds everything together and does the job it’s supposed to do, you’re happy. If it has a defect, you will soon notice it. At any rate, you’re stuck with it because you can’t […]
What Would Don Corleone Buy?
I know. I did this before, here: What Would Heathcliff Buy? . Well, I’m bored again and my mind is wandering down strange roads. Here are the fruits of today’s mental meanderings. Let us take […]
Overcoming Writer’s Block the Lazy Way
If you ask a hundred writers about writer’s block, you’ll get a hundred conflicting viewpoints. It’s like the common cold. Everybody has a remedy, some of which work a little better than others. Some writers […]
What Makes Us Talk That Way?
You have to admit that some of the expressions that Americans use to describe people or comment on the state of things are pretty interesting. I have made a list of some of them, and, […]
The Great Catholic Halloween Caper
It was Halloween of 1955, and the kids of St. Joseph’s Catholic Elementary School had been looking forward to it, along with every other kid in the United States. We got to dress up in […]
Kathy’s Points to Remember: The Workplace
It isn’t advisable to tell your boss to take the project he just assigned you and shove it up his ass. He might shove it up yours instead. It would be awfully embarrassing to have […]
Epistle to Conservative Evangelicals
Dear (insert name): Please stop telling me I need to repent and get right with God because I am Catholic. I have already repented. In fact, I repent all the time. That’s what Catholics do. […]