America’s New Favorite Pastime
For at least the past 100 years, baseball has been considered America’s Favorite Pastime, and given that there was no TV or Internet available for most of those 100 years, it makes some amount of […]
Category: Words to Think Upon
Six Word Memoirs
The objective of Six Word Memoirs is to generate a story or a special moment using six word only. Today my Six Word Memoirs was inspired by my husband Pete. I was feeling down and needed a bit of tea and sympathy – […]
The new TV programming schedule: What is going on here?
I was born in 1970. TV programming was in full swing, had found its rhythm and was as popular as ever. I remember watching my favorite primetime series in the late 70s and 80s. Each […]
More Context
I hear the word “miracle” quite a lot. I don’t think the word is ever used correctly. Here’s what the dictionary says that “miracle” means: “A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by […]
Tips For the Budding Humorist
Tell me: Are bugs falling from your ceiling Or squirrels being chased around your house? Could you write a funny rant with feeling Or fantasize about a trailer house? Then you may be sitting on […]
Do You Suffer From Paronomasia?
I just learned that I suffer from paronomasia. Actually, I may cause more suffering than I experience myself, since this “disease” is the act of punning! I was raised in a liberal environment where punning […]
What if God Just “Isn’t That Into You”?
I try to comprehend what must be the gap in complexity between man and God. Certainly the gap is huge, right? Surely more so than the gap between, say, human and amoeba. So I look […]
Biblemania: The Garden of Eden
Last night, I was watching one of those “religious history” shows on the Smithsonian Channel. The Garden of Eden of the bible was mentioned in an earlier portion of the show. If you haven’t read […]
The Creation of Man
God: I am almost finished with my greatest creation! Jesus: I hope this goes better than the dinosaurs… God: This one I have created in my image! Jesus: I don’t know, this one doesn’t look […]