Category Archives: Humor

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The Key to Lawn (and Self) Mowing

Thought for the Week We’d bought our first house with a yard, and I was excited about mowing! I got over that quick. Still, if ya got grass, ya gotta mow, and that means: 1) You have to cut it … Continue reading

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Alone. But Not Alone.

Photo by Annie Spratt The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Feeling completely alienated from their friends and from one another, Gina … Continue reading

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We’re Havin’ a Heatwave!

 So, this is spring? A month before summer officially begins here we started experiencing near-record heat, with temperatures rivaling peak summer days and not a rain cloud in sight. The ground is fractured, the shrubs are slouching, and our little … Continue reading

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Tips for Writers: Making Gradual Miracles

Cloudzilla! A sign from God? “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” ~Ernest Hemingway Five years ago, I got the good news that, after a one year delay, my comedy monster movie Notzilla had been greenlighted (received financing)! The not-so-good … Continue reading

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Playing the Field

My Real Memoir By age 16 my infatuation with girls had gone malarial; no net could contain me. I flirted shamelessly with anyone and everyone I found attractive. I never mentioned other girls to my pen pal Judy, for example. … Continue reading

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Mockery Cuts Deep

The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Gina and her brother Zack had completely alienated one another. And now they were facing … Continue reading

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Unintentional Irony

Irony: it’s everywhere we look. Except when we’re actually looking for it. Which is rather ironic, actually. Humans are the most ironic creatures on earth–and probably in the rest of the universe, for that matter–both intentionally and unintentionally. As Deteriorata, … Continue reading

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Telephone Solicitors

I don’t like telephone solicitation. But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy it. I mean, robocalls–meh. But I took real pleasure in having this conversation with an actual live solicitor: Telephone rings Me: Hello? Solicitor: Hello, I’m from Hearing Solutions. … Continue reading

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Just Mitch

My Real Memoir God believed in me. Even though, by my teens, I’d decided he didn’t exist and had come to consider believers rather simple-minded. Still, I could be tactfully dodgy. I told my pen pal Judy I believed in … Continue reading

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The Art of Bullying

The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Zack and Gina had accidentally scattered the mysterious objects all over … Continue reading

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