Only in corporate America
I was sitting in Red Robin yesterday, waiting for my wife to arrive. Beside me, spread across two tables that had been pushed apart, was the cartoon map of a…
As a writer, I often have no idea what I’m doing
Here’s how crazy my writing process can be: I open the next chapter of my manuscript in a restaurant. Protagonist, father and son sitting at a table, waiting for their…
Stupid tee shirt made stupider
I saw a woman in the gym today with a tee-shirt that read: A friend will help you move… Then on the back of the tee-shirt, it read: But a…
I was right! (insert self-congratulatory jig)
I received the following email (links added by me) from a reader this morning, who gave me permission to post it here absent his or her name: _____________________________________ Your post entitled…
The first table is merely a suggestion.
The fact that I cannot walk into a restaurant full of empty tables and simply choose the table that I want baffles me. I understand that when the joint is…
Useless word
As a writer, certain words annoy me. For example, the word minute, an indication of 60 seconds of time, is spelled the same as minute, meaning small. I hate this.…
Career advice
Even though Elysha and I are on the no call list, we still receive the occasional unsolicited calls from telemarketers. Usually these are companies that we already do business with…
Top 3 blogger on this blog
A friend of mine recently started doing business with one of the “Top 3 dermatologists in New York City.” There is a select breed of person in this world who…
Backing into trouble
I watched a woman grind her enormous SUV into a Subaru station wagon as she was backing into a parking spot at Shaw’s supermarket today. My question: Why does anyone…
A contest! Everyone loves a contest! And there are fabulous prizes, too!
Okay, I have a contest, and hopefully enough of my readers will be interested to make it worthwhile. On August 25, I will be appearing at WORD in Brooklyn, NY…
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