Polyester. God I hate it. I even hate the word. “Poly” meaning “many” and “Esther” meaning you were probably born in the very late 1800s. Suddenly I feel sorry for all the Esthers who gave their lives so I could have a shiny purple paisley...

n Paris by the Seine River, you can see a rumpled older man sitting on the bank with his rod, loaf of bread and a bottle of wine. Monsieur drops his line in the water appearing to be fishing. But there’s no hook on his...

They walk among us. Even worse, we let them drive cars and vote and reproduce. No wonder the world is in such miserable shape. I’m of course talking about the terminally clueless morons that seem to more and more permeate our lives. These people are...

If your McMansion is equipped with quarters and a pair of live-in maids, or if you’re married to the perfect Stepford wife and don’t have a clue where the laundry room is, you can stop reading now. The following will not apply to you and...

There are so many phrases from our youth that just seemed to vanish in the mist. Wearing Your Sunday Best As children, many of us remember polishing our shoes on Saturday night so they would be shiny on Sunday morning. We wore suits and ties...

Just killed a word. Put a gun against its head, Pulled my trigger, now it’s dead. Apologies for messing with Freddie Mercury’s Bohemian Rhapsody, and anyway, that’s not what happened. The break-up came without my knowledge or consent. I killed nothing. The truth: I lost...

We all know what white lies are. And odds are we've all told them many times in our lives... to each other and ourselves! No one will notice I'm going bald if I wear a baseball cap 24/7….or wrap this long, single strand of hair...

When I was a kid, Christmas got kicked off the first week, or sometimes the second week, of December when the train arrived with the fresh cut Christmas trees.  Everyone in town helped unload them – and got a chance to pick out the best.  By the...