The Best Gift Books for 2021-Part III
Welcome to the Holiday Season! This is the time of year when we direct you to some of the most talented writers in the world! Yep, we at HumorOutcasts Press/Shorehouse Books/Corner Office Books […]
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Please with cheese . . . GET TO WORK!
A few minutes of TikTok while she heated up two spinach egg bites from Costco’s frozen foods section (toasted, not microwaved), a cup of decaf coffee (caffeine makes her anxious), hand sanitizer, wipes, a face mask […]
Featured Author Bill Spencer
HumorOutcasts Press (HOPress-Shorehouse Books.com) was thrilled to release this book of wonderful essays from Bill Spencer. Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh will make you laugh out loud. Bill Spencer is […]
Teaching your teen is not impossible
My 15-year-old no longer has patience—not with inconvenience, not with failure and not with learning, which is often the takeaway in times of inconvenience and failure . . . if you have patience. It seems […]
An Excerpt from Lite Whines and Laughter: Mild Rants and Musings on the Mundane by Lee Gaitan
Today, is our first excerpt Lite Whines and Laughter: Mild Rants and Musings on the Mundane, the third book from author Lee Gaitan. The book is available on Amazon in paperback and eBook formats. Follow […]
Horrible dads attract horrible stuff
Aaaah-choo! I knew right then I had the flu, even though, days later, I was fine, not another sneeze or other symptom to be found. But horrible stuff happens all the time, so I wasn’t […]
Happy ending to dog’s tale
Our pet beagle eats his food fast—really fast. I wondered if we should do something about it. So my wife told a friend, the friend told another friend who was a veterinarian, and the veterinarian […]
Allegedly Sweet Things Said to Me by Children
(From a four year old preschooler, explaining why she needed to wear a “bra” (bathing suit top) under her shirt) “I need it so I can have big boobies like Miss Michelle.” (From a six […]
When Students Grade the Teacher
I taught college English from the age of 24 until I was three times the age of my students. I estimate that in those 30 years, I taught about 5,000 students and graded at least […]
Unicorn Bites 11/4/13
Me: Will you ever stop loving me? Wife: I didn't know I ever started. Then we high-fived and went back to not speaking to each other. — James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) November 4, 2013 […]