The Place to Take a Humor Break
We’ve just celebrated Independence Day and the grilling days of summer are underway. Millions of Americans celebrate July Fourth with backyard barbeques and continue their outside cooking throughout the season. Cooking al fresco is the […]
It seemed like I was eating garbage lately. I felt unhealthy, sluggish and grumpy all the time. But there she was in the grocery store, so beautiful, staring at me through the plastic window in […]
The world is against me. My son is approaching his teenage years — he’ll be 10 next month — and his friends are pushing me out of the center of his universe. It’s not fair […]
For fun, my 10-year-old son decided to play a Wii Sports video game. He kept losing. Where’s the fun in that? The kid doesn’t even know how to use the controls. He just hits buttons, […]
I don’t give my wife flowers. After only a few days they’re drooping, smelling and dead. I even hate the process of buying flowers. “What’d you do wrong?” guys ask, laughing. Ladies don’t say anything. […]
It’s not a wild mania. Devouring regular amounts of World War II history, watching countless WWII programs, listening to big band hits from the era and reading old wartime columns by Rock County Star Herald’s […]
When I call my mom, every other day, her first response to me is almost always “well hello stranger.” You’d think I never call her. If I called her every single day, she’d respond the […]
We like our traditions here in northern Indiana: For instance, it’s traditional for us to get sick every fall and winter. All of us. I’m as traditional as the next guy, assuming the next guy […]
What’s your favorite horrible holiday childhood memory? One of my cherished unpleasant flashbacks arrive every year during Thanksgiving. First, a few facts: I was born a few days after Thanksgiving Day in 1961. At birth, I weighed […]
If you have kids, then by the time they reach middle school, it’s a certainty they’ll turn to their parents for help with their science fair project. In our family, they naturally turned to me […]