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What’s Yours is Mine Or How to Sample Your Life

Blog, Humor, SatireNovember 1, 20202Views 0Likes 0Comments

I’m thinking of traveling to Berlin to visit Helene Hegemann, the 19-year-old best-selling German author who almost won the Leipzig Book Fair prize, despite the fact that she freely admitted to lifting whole sections from other sources and who was written up (with proper acknowledgements) by Nicholas Kulish in the New York Times.

Reflections in Prague, 1993

Blog, True CrimeApril 23, 20203Views 0Likes 0Comments

It wasn’t just the murder which brought her here to the place her parents could never stop talking about, the place they had left, their hearts almost irretrievably broken when they were forced to leave their family and homeland.

Just Desserts

Blog, GlobalMay 28, 20196Views 0Likes 0Comments

When Solange, Miguel and I shared a chocolate dessert in Quito and spoke together, two of us in broken tongues, and my beautiful and self-confident daughter in two seamless languages, I knew my experiment in international living had been successful.

After All, He’s Just a Man

Blog, Featured, Humor, SatireSeptember 22, 20184Views 0Likes 0Comments

Was Mitch McConnell channeling Tammy Wynette last week? “Stand by Your Man” seemed to be the theme song of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. If you love him, you will be proud of him, because “after all, he’s just a man.”

A Bullet in the Brain

Blog, True CrimeApril 7, 20152Views 0Likes 0Comments

It was 5:20 AM Sunday and someone was banging on the door at my grandmother’s house in Beloit, Wisconsin, where I had come for a weekend respite from college. I stumbled out of bed with my slit eyes, grumbling to myself about inconsiderate people who don’t have the sense to let others get some much-needed…

The Exceptional Executive

Blog, Humor, Management, SatireMay 8, 20134Views 0Likes 0Comments

I wondered if I should mention to her she ought to lose those pounds she’s added recently. HR will just give me that sob story about how she’s going through hard times since her husband died. Or was it her husband and her son? Some car accident. Or maybe mountain climbing. But why is that MY…

Easter Defended

Blog, HumorMarch 27, 20134Views 0Likes 0Comments

I was at a dinner party last week and sat next to a man from Bhutan, who had recently moved here for a six-month assignment at The Hodge Conjecture Think Tank in Flatbush.

Imperialistic Publishers

Blog, HumorJanuary 15, 20133Views 0Likes 0Comments

We have read your exhaustive and exhausting manuscript for the novel “Silas Marner” and we regretfully decline its publication. There are problems two numerous to enumerate in this shortly letter, but I feel it my duty as editorial spokesman to correct your literative and grammatical mistakes.

Narcissus and the Psychiatrist

Blog, Play, PsychologyDecember 7, 20122Views 0Likes 0Comments

A play based on Ovid’s story of Narccissus’s mother, Liriope, who asks a wise man if her son would grow old and he replied, “Yes, if he never knows himself.”