The Place to Take a Humor Break
This year I’ll turn forty-eight. I’ll hate everything about it, with one exception: being one year further distanced from that little yellow bus. 7:04 a.m., any day, my junior year of high school: “Honk! Honk!” There it is, the short bus, announcing itself […]
I’m loathe to admit it, but the heat in my office occasionally gives rise to a generously proportioned zit on my ass. It’s usually nestled between the cheeks, hidden from view unless one goes looking. More often than not, I give my boyfriend a heads up. I’d rather warn him than contend with […]
I have a friend. In the spirit of anonymity, I’ll call her Maxine. Maxine’s libido eclipses her need for air. I once asked her the most unusual place she ever had sex. She answered, “You’d be better off asking where I haven’t […]
It isn’t our intended destination, but driving through our hometown, my sister and I feel a need to see the house we grew up in. Laura turns onto the street, slowing the car as we […]
For the first time in twenty-three years, my father was sans a cheap mechanic. He’d barely digested this when, a couple of months later, his “check engine” light came on. An hour-and-a-half from home, he […]
In my youth, my father spent Saturday mornings poring over newspaper circulars, scissors in hand, alert to bargains near and far. The fruit of his labors was a dense, omnipresent stack of coupon clippings stacked […]