That time my beloved cat exacted her last revenge because I stopped for gas on the way to put her down.
Read moreThe Unfairport
“The TSA agents looked exhausted to hear another riot act from a Mr. So-and-so who should be allowed on the plane with [item everybody knows isn’t allowed on a plane].”
Read morePants
The man whose pants I was pulling on looked down at me and, through a thick black beard boomed at me, “Kid, I am not your mom.”
Read moreTom And Liz At A Crossroads
This is a moment in time. It is a big moment in time that should be remembered, if only to remember it as something we should never, ever do again.
Read moreI was wrong about the Oxford comma (and the world)
Who says you can’t teach an old writer new tricks. With time, and a reduced metabolism, I’ve come to terms with my old nemesis: the Oxford comma. But something funny happened along the way, and I realized, I’d been going about this whole life thing wrong.
Read moreLiberate Minnesota
The Liberate rallies were built on a kernel of truth — in a vacuum of leadership during an historic economic disaster and compounded by a pandemic of biblical proportions — and blossomed into a grotesque carnival of entitlements gone wild.
Read moreIs the field actually empty?
A series of photos I took recently, and a short story about visiting Hancock Field Station, in Eastern Oregon, and how, if we look closer at what we previously thought was empty or dull, we might find something surprising.
Read more"Fromageee!!!"
This is a story about how, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, in the spring of 1998, I became old friends with 20 or 30 seniors on rumspringa from Green Bay Wisconsin and how they almost destroyed Western Europe with a photograph.
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