Category: Humor/Fiction

“And so far, they’ve pretty much validated the hypothesis behind my research, which is that senior citizens are just too smart for their own good…”

We all need something to celebrate, in this day and age, what with everything degenerating into conflict, or getting warmer and drier, or costing a lot more than it used to…

The health care experts at Cedars Sinai note that computer eye strain symptoms can include dry eyes, headache, blurred vision and eye twitching…

You feel like you can trust someone, who has an arsenal of four or five jokes ready to go…

Things could be worse. I could be paying $1,700 a month for an 800-square-foot one-bedroom apartment, up a flight of stairs…

Being older implies that you’ve witnessed some History first-hand, even if you can’t remember exactly what happened…

So the idea that the federal government might be distributing free “safe smoking kits” made me feel like, finally, my tax money is being used wisely…

“Although most people wish to maintain a happy and fulfilling relationship, people’s satisfaction with their romantic relationship often decreases over the years…”

Valentine’s Day this year wasn’t a complete loss…

Pretty much anyone with a smart phone has a collection of pictures, available at a moment’s notice, with entirely too many photos of entirely too many unimportant events….

The Inuit people of northern Canada have a word, iktsuarpok, which can be only poorly translated into English, meaning roughly, a sense of intense anticipation while waiting for someone…

I’ve always thought the term ‘minority’ meant something like ‘members of a small segment of the population’…

Ms. Fetell Lee researches, writes about, and talks about the human experience known as ‘joy’. In fact, she refers to herself, in one online lecture, as ‘The Nancy Drew of Joy’…

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has joined forces with a government-funded organization called ‘Water Education Colorado’ to encourage all of us to use 22 water-saving ideas…

We all understand that a small-town newspaper sometimes needs to find some type of ‘filler’ content to fit a blank space on a certain page…

Fortunately, these two disassociated universes are not the actual universe, as I have been explaining to my cat, Roscoe…

One dark night, when we were all in bed, Old Mother Leary left a lantern in the shed…

I was listening to NPR last week, and I heard a commentator say something like, “Geeks used to be unpopular. Now, they are running the show…”