In Snark Contrast

Ahh, once again the end of the year is nigh, just days away from breaking out the new calendar and going back to square one. In the rearview mirror...

So this always stuck with me: A good seven or eight years ago I'm at my place of employment and this younger associate, a woman in her early twenti...

They've been known to hang out together. Scads of 'em. In a barrel, no less. As a whole, they've been hailed as not just being pretty good medicine...

So this wasn't cool: The other day--Tuesday morning, to be exact--I got caught red-handed by a Starbucks barista, doing... well, I, ah... I guess y...

She Came In Through the Bathroom Window, Maggie Mae and Another Girl, pretending it was commonplace, trying to Act Naturally. "Help!", I thought to...

A notion is an ethereal thing. It doesn't make the scene, compliments of us sitting pensively, attempting to will it into existence. There is no fo...

For the record, I've got a monkey in the next room sitting in front of a typewriter. Got some 'splainin' to do, I know... It all started last eveni...

Gotta say, I was really into explorers when I was a kid. No,not Dora, that obnoxious kids' cartoon. And not Jacques Cousteau, the famous French oce...

"In a word she was 'magic' to be around. Made me feel like we were invincible, like the rest of the world didn't exist."... "These guys have been b...

"Time to get your grub on!"... "Ain't no better vittles than at a southern barbecue... "What say we go to that French place and check out the cuisi...

The vast majority of us have witnessed or participated in matchmaking dialogue. Typically the person attempting the setup espouses the attributes o...

Some people have it from the get-go. Born into it, really. The product of being in the right place at the right time, the offspring of parents who ...