The peanut butter and tuna fish sandwich
For people like me who hate mayonnaise (and there are many of us), foods like egg, chicken and tuna salad sandwiches are not viable options for us. When I was…
A death threat, courtesy of the Yellow Pages
The Yellow Pages is a telephone directory of businesses, organized by category, rather than alphabetically by business name and in which advertising is sold. The directories were originally printed on…
A silver lining to rapidly increasing climate change
This is scary stuff. The one benefit to rapidly increasing climate change is that many of the naysayers and deniers will still be alive when all the polar ice is…
The Moth: Black and White in Washington
The following is a story that I told at a Moth StorySLAM at Housing Works in New York City earlier this year. The theme of the night was Summer. I…
The average husband would choose the cash and time over well appointed fingernails.
I’m not criticizing the value of a manicure or pedicure. At least not at the moment. If a manicure or pedicure makes a person happy, that’s a wonderful thing. I’m…
What the hell is going on in Kansas?
Kansas state representative Gail Finney has proposed a bill that defines acceptable forms of corporal punishment in both schools and home as “up to ten forceful applications in succession of…
Everything happens for a reason, especially when your life is good.
When I hear someone say that "everything happens for a reason," I remind them that they might find this to be a less plausible premise if they had been sold…
Advertising goes both ways.
My daughter didn’t see a commercial until she was almost three years old. Though we thought this moratorium was a good idea, it turns out that she is now completely…
The world is rapidly leaving the bigots behind
When an arena of Missouri sports fans gives an openly gay football player a standing ovation, the world is getting decidedly smaller for the bigots of the world.
