During intermission at last night's Moth StorySLAM at The Oberon in Cambridge, I went to the restroom. The Oberon has converted its formerly gender-specific restrooms to gender-neutral restrooms. When I…
Belinda Carlisle claims again and again in her 1987 Billboard #1 hit "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" that:"They say in heaven, love comes first."No, they don't. This is not…
Daniel Dale, Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, tweeted the following thread that I have cut and pasted here in the event you don't use Twitter or didn't see it on…
I'm not asking for much.When construction begins on a new project, could we require that a sign be erected explaining what this new project will be?Last year, a gas station…
A friend recently said to me, "If you choose to believe in God, at least you get to believe in heaven." What I strange thing to say, I thought. If…
Nothing to see here.Just a pre-sunrise conversation with my eight-year old daughter, Clara, about what the word "stillborn" means, followed by a flood of tears over the fate of Elizabeth Adams,…
I appreciate and embrace consistency in all things. Find the fastest, most accurate, most efficient, least expensive way of doing something, and repeat as often as needed.This is why men's…
This cat pushes everything he can find onto the floor. He's broken bowls and glasses and picture frames. He's toppled laundry baskets off counters and shoved laptops of tables. He eats…
Sometimes I listen to a despicable person - politician, commentator, talk show host - and find myself compelled to run to Wikipedia to find out how old the person is, hoping…
A reader on Goodreads asked me to write a two sentence horror story. Here is what I wrote:She cried out from the laundry room. "You didn't dry my sweaters, did…
