Two likes make alike
I told Jill Y that I love her and I always will but she knew that. I also told her that I love myself more than I love her but she knew that. When you […]
Category: Fiction
Awesome Business Idea #67
The other day I was in a store, looking for a carry-on item. You know, those tiny tubes of stuff sold at inflated prices that are allowable on airplane flights. Someday we’re gonna find out […]
If this car was an actor, it would be Jean-Claude Van Damme.
When Jill Y and I are bored, we like to pretend we can afford something more than a Happy Meal. Sometimes our imaginations really get the better of us and we end up at a […]
Life Lessons From Strange Places
I went to a college in Tennessee that insisted on holding its football players to the same academic standards as everyone else. This put our school at a serious competitive disadvantage in attracting players. If […]
Is not making others happy, more important than your own happiness?
Marco gets a job working with massive quantities of Nutella. Marco is happy but surely there’s more to life than being happy? Is not making others happy, more important than your own happiness? Of course […]
Before you ask, No, I am not a professional Chef.
People have strengths and weaknesses but I’m brilliant at everything. It’s a burden I’ve had to live with since I was conceived and I live with it spectacularly well. It must be hard having limitations […]
In Defense of Black Friday
With Thanksgiving behind us, there is a crispy clean feeling in the air. The kind of feeling that can only mean one thing: time to start capitalizing on other people’s feelings of lack of self […]
I’m not going to lie, I don’t even know what an Arts Degree is but I’m willing to bet, you can download one from the internet.
Okay, let’s alienate some people, shall we? Someone, somewhere is going to say ‘Wait a minute, my Arts Degree is worth more than the email from the Online College that sent it to me” and […]
I Got Nothing
Today, while driving home from shopping, I noticed a new car with a custom license plate that said nothing. Literally. “NOTHING”. I mean this person (I couldn’t see the driver) paid for a public soapbox […]