Red-Eye Etiquette
So my husband took the red-eye flight recently from San Francisco to Philadelphia. He flies a lot for work, and probably three times a year, he takes a red-eye flight. But this last time he […]
Tag: fun
I Really Know How to F Up My Kid!
The family went to the planetarium in Philadelphia this week. My parents were in town, I had a day off and the kids wanted to see the mummy exhibit. Well, my 8-year-old daughter did. My […]
Tied What Kind of Knot?
The headlines today are “Kim Kardashian Ties the Knot”. Really? This is news? What kind of knot did she really tie? Have you ever looked up knot in the urban dictionary? Now I know what they […]
Michelangelo – The Missing Years
Hello! I’m back! I thought I’d let a suitable hiatus intervene after my recent epic daily postings of the Eric Preet Serial. This whimsical article was inspired when an airbrush illustrator friend of mine told […]
To Slap or Not to Slap
Comedian Larry Miller said, “Women, you don’t have any idea what men are thinking, and if you did, you would never stop slapping us.” Okay. Well, women as we get older, don’t actually care so […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Sunday
AND, INDEED, I was. Brenda was relentless. The next day was Sunday and she was still hard at it, or, rather, me. If I had been hoping to commit the seventh deadly sin of sloth, […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Saturday
“AYE, AYE, WHAT’S all this then?” It was Saturday morning. Through my bleary vision I could just make out the form of a policeman. I thought the film makers must have come back and that […]
Awkward Priest
Summer is good and bad. The “good” is going to the beach, eating ice cream when it’s hot, swimming in the pool and playing outdoors. The “bad,” as an adult at least, is that it […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Thursday
BROMLEY! THE SORT of sleepy suburbia that should be the bed-manufacturing capital of the world. I was going to claim what was rightfully mine. I rang the doorbell and got no response. I pressed harder. […]
Eric Preet’s Week of Sins: Wednesday
I WAS IN PRISON for the whole of Wednesday. Prisoners were allowed newspapers and I speed-read the front page headline: ‘Wotta Lot o’ Lotto!’ Huh. Another undeserving lottery millionaire. Why couldn’t I get a look […]