Joining the war against nonplussed is flammable/inflammable
Since launching my war against the word “nonplussed” last week, the campaign has been proceeding surprisingly well. In addition to my own use of the word “nonplussed” at least half…
I’m launching an email newsletter. What should be included?
The publishing Gods (Jane Friedman and many others) have declared that the most important tool that an author has for building a platform and marketing a book is a strong…
For my daughter. And all daughters.
Advice To Young Girls: If you have a choice between being the thin one or the pretty one, choose to be the funny one. Megan Sass posted this to Twitter…
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…
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