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Thanksgiving Poem
I wrote this several years ago when I was first experimenting with humor writing. I hope you enjoy it and your holiday week. It started innocent enough, The Thanksgiving when the turkey was…
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Telling Stories
“In my day, we had to walk miles in the snow to school…” Thus begins the age-old joke about parents’ childhood stories. For decades, kids have been rolling their eyes at all the…
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The Funny Ones
One of the things that sparked my love for the past was 1960s sitcoms. For years, I unwound before bedtime by watching an episode with my family. We saw quite a few series,…
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Spock’s Brain & the Logic of Laughter
It was the best of episodes, it was the worst of episodes. I’m referring, of course, to the famous, infamous, uncreatively titled episode of the original Star Trek series: Spock’s Brain. The basic…
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Snoopy, Sparky, Vince & Me
Who doesn’t love the Peanuts gang? Sure, not everyone is a dyed-in-the-wool fan, but I’d be shocked if I met someone who had a strong dislike for Snoopy and Co. I’m firmly in…
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Nomenclature
April showers bring may flowers. Except in Texas where the weather does whatever it wants and all the maxims in the world won’t change it. Around where I live, flower season sometimes starts…
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10 Favorite Picture Books
This blog might not exist if my mom hadn’t read to me every night from birth to teenagerhood. Maybe I would have still fallen in love with books and writing—they seem to be…
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How to Time Travel
Have you ever wished you could travel back in time? Not because there was some grave error you wanted to warn your past self to avoid—paradoxes that way lie—but because you are bored…
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Overheard in Hobby Lobby
I heard it in a Hobby Lobby, as all good stories start. I was on the sticker aisle, where glossy sheets line every inch on either side, dangling in their cellophane wrapping like…
