The Place to Take a Humor Break
If you work in a library, you work with book carts, so naturally you give them nicknames. You could call your faithful book cart Bumpy, Squeaky, Rusty or Tipsy. But surely you can do better […]
At the library where I work, we have an incredibly challenging patron whose imperious demands, unpleasant attitude and relentless sense of entitlement annoy and depress us all so much that we’ve nicknamed her “Sunshine.” (Never […]
Never believe your own PR. Years ago I was married to a criminal lawyer, whose name I’ll shorten to Ken Q. He defended impossible cases and his acquittals made headlines. A reporter dubbed him “Hurricane […]
Growing up, I hated my name. Mom said she named me Roxanne after some relatively unknown actress from the early fifties whose moniker caught her fancy. When you’re young, you want nothing more than to […]