Hurry Up and Wait
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. They say you spend one-third of your life sleeping, but some days we feel like we spend the other two-thirds of […]
The Place to Take a Humor Break
Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic write, speak and blog together as The Word Mavens. They say you spend one-third of your life sleeping, but some days we feel like we spend the other two-thirds of […]
Inspired by Keith Stewart, I decided to drag this one-year-old post from Medium out again. I’ve made a few updates. Here’s a list of this year’s featured holiday specials. Check your local listings. Twice ousted […]
Friends and family, gather near. The time is upon us once again. You patiently endured Thanksgiving. You suffered through Black Friday. You tolerated Cyber Monday. Now the wait is over. Keith’s 2018 Inappropriate Christmas Gift […]
Today I am grateful to be a doppelgänger. For Madonna. The singer not the saint. People have been telling me for years that I look exactly like her. I’m sure you see the resemblance, […]
Tourists were reportedly forced to shop in Hong Kong. Yahoo! News It had been six months since my buddy Spike and I were captured and imprisoned in Harbour City, a massive maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp on Canton Road, Tsim Sha […]
I love Christmas. Yes, I’m one of those. I get into the “Christmas Spirit” as a wealthy woman puts on a mink coat: easily, in one fluid movement, and completely. People who don’t want to […]
Every year for as far back as I can remember, we’ve had company for Thanksgiving. But for the first time in our 31 years of marriage, we’d be quietly celebrating alone, just the two of […]
Another weekend with the in-laws ends on a sour note as the question is again raised, once the Agnostic-Rastafarian in the family (that’s me) steps outside to load the car, why our children aren’t baptized. […]