Category Archives: Humor

Sometimes, ya just gotta laugh!

Write a Love Poem for Poetry Month

Here’s an essay by Garrison Keillor inviting folks to write a love poem for Poetry Month which is just around the corner in April. Take a look at the article if for no other reason but that it is not about … Continue reading

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Employee Review in Verse

A fact I have never disclosed in this blog is that I am a U.S. federal government employee. The agency that employs me requires us to produce employee reviews once a year. I think this is pretty standard practice in most businesses … Continue reading

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I Want to Found a New National Holiday

I want to start a new national holiday. I started it in my own family when our children were young. It is called March Forth and it’s a holiday based on a pun. Today is March Fourth but pun-wise it … Continue reading

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How to Make Biscuits

We weren’t able to share Thanksgiving with my parents and other relatives in my childhood hometown this year.  If we had, my wife and I probably would have hosted the event.  I would have made the biscuits.  As it turned out, … Continue reading

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I’m the last person someone sits next to on the bus

Commuting to and from work on the bus I’m often surprised and puzzled and, well yes, feel a tiny bit left out.  It’s like I’m always the last person people sit next to on the bus and I keep wondering … Continue reading

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Hitting Bottom

I put it off for nearly a year and a half, but in the end, I had to go through with it.  I’m talking about my colonoscopy.  I’m so glad it’s behind me now.  Before the procedure I didn’t think I would … Continue reading

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