What I am Even More Thankful For Last year right around this time, I penned a column entitled, “What I Am Thankful For”. Eschewing the typical prattle of self-involved lists of people and interests that everyone wants to write but no one wants to listen to, last year’s edition was a farcical send-up of the […]
Some days I wake up and wish I could just crawl back under the covers and sleep away the stupidity I see all around me. I really should watch less of the “news” on television. I, for one, will be glad to stop watching all of the coverage of this carnival sideshow parading itself around […]
Alright, I promise this will be the last piece I write on this preposterous election, that carnival sideshow that feels like it came straight out of some sort of 20th-century absurdist drama. And no, I’m not going to pout like a whiny little brat because we lost or pull some “Not My President” nonsense because […]
The 21st-Century P.T. Barnum You have no idea how painful it is for me to have to admit this, but I underestimated Donald Trump. I underestimated him and the blind rage he was able to tap into on his way to an unforeseen victory in the 2016 presidential election. I failed to acknowledge Trump’s uncanny […]
Sequels are Stupid….Part II In case any of you were wondering, I write this column for a reason. Beyond just amusing myself with witty banter and inane observations, I use TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less to draw people to my website, www.waitingfortoday.com, in hopes that they will peruse excerpts from my best-selling debut novel, […]
A Piano and a Goat Walk Into a Bar Say it ain’t so, Joe! The Chicago Cubs are finally back in the World Series. Well, that didn’t take long now, did it? Only 71 pain-staking, gut-wrenching years of devoted fandom. But hey, what’s a few decades when we’re talking about one of the most beloved […]
Well, that got ugly quick, didn’t it? A couple of weeks ago, we all thought this was going to be a real election. We saw the poll numbers and believed that this one might actually go down to the wire. Many of us were hyperventilating into brown paper bags to relieve ourselves of the fear […]
Wipe that Stupid Smile Off Your Face So it appears that a group of maniacal lunatics dressed as evil clowns have been terrorizing the country recently, scaring the literal crap out of children in the woods, sending vague threats to local authorities, and forcing school closures nationwide. And this time I am not just referring […]
Damn it Feels Good to Be a Hipster We’ve all seen them. Our neighborhoods are being overrun by a new demographic, a group that continues to propagate and spread its cultural impact like a plague that infects the multitudes and then lingers without a cure. In recent years, their numbers have grown dramatically, […]
Take ‘Em Kicking and Screaming I’m not going to lie: I love the scheduling flexibility and freedom that my writing vocation affords me. Now don’t let that concept fool you; I work my tail off, and if you don’t believe that, I suggest you try writing and editing ten thousand words a week. I put […]
