“Toxic Masculinity” is Toxic I keep a list of potential topics for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less in the Notes app on my phone. Like comedians who jot down ideas for jokes, I use this method to keep track of random, often scattered thoughts that come to me in a moment of divine inspiration, […]
Saving the World One Lasagna at a Time I’ll be the first to acknowledge that I’ve been a bit of a downer recently. Not so much in my personal day-to-day life where I continue to be the affable, rosy-eyed optimist everyone knows and loves, but rather here in TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. Let’s […]
Social Media Brings Out the Worst in All of Us What is it about social media that turns all of us (yes, myself included) into utter raging assholes? Don’t believe me or think that you’re the exception to this rule? Let me tell you about the two posts I put up on Facebook last week. […]
The Biology of Sex Yes, folks, it’s March, and you know what that means- March Madness!! There’s nothing better than filling out your bracket each year with a vague sense of unfounded optimism only to watch the whole thing blow up in your face with each and every closely-contested buzzer-beater like the dynamite-filled birthday cake […]
The Literal Road to Nowhere I’ve said this before, but y’all need to stop moving here. Like, seriously. As the fastest growing state for the better part of a decade that doesn’t allow legalized prostitution, our infrastructure was never intended to accommodate this many people. The I-70 corridor that links metro Denver to the ski […]
Where Will All the Teachers Go? Nobody ever teaches for the money; they teach in spite of the money. Trust me on this one. I have a B.A. from one of this country’s leading liberal arts colleges (thank you, Colgate University) along with an M.A. from the the University of Vermont, and in 20-plus years […]
An Unintended Polemic An old and dear friend of mine recently used the term “polemic” in describing my writings in TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. I’m not suggesting he was wrong to do so; in fact, I do believe he is probably quite right in his ascription. But nonetheless, I must acknowledge that the […]
It’s Not What You Say But How You Say It Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim….They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are […]
C.R.T.- Critical Race Truthiness Well, there sure seems to be a lot of discussion about C.R.T. (or Critical Race Theory) these days, especially since most of the people tossing the term around so much appear to have absolutely no idea what it really means. C.R.T. has been the basis for a significant upheaval in school […]
Sometimes Affirmative Action Isn’t So Affirmative Raise your hand if you were caught by surprise when Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement a couple weeks back. Yeah, that’s what I thought. If you couldn’t see this coming, you must have Coke bottle lenses for glasses, yet somehow dropped them down a bottomless well […]
