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How To Win Friends And Influence People
New Year’s greetings, friends. I haven’t posted any fiction in a while. My twitter pal @ChrisGNguyen sent me a link to a flash fiction challenge using a photo prompt. (You know how much I love those photo prompts.) I must … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, Dale Carnegie, flash fiction, Flashback Photography, Flea Circus, Humor, LitStack, photo prompt
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Where Is My Popeil Latke Maker?
A Xmas pub crawl seems to have taken over my neighborhood. Hipsters wearing Santa Suits and elf costumes are collecting on street corners. First they fall down drunk then shout to their Mrs Claus counterparts about what bar to hit … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Dreidel, Forever Lazy, Funny Ads, Hanukkah, Hanukkah gelt, Holiday, Humor, Infomercials, Maccabees, Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island, pinup girls, Pub Crawl, Santa, satire, Slanket, Snuggie, the broccoli wad
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It’s No Zombie Apocalypse, But I Have Some Concerns…
Don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan of technology from way back. Electricity is extremely handy. Owning a phone does cut back on all that shouting out of windows. I might even get call waiting one of these days. … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Benjamin Franklin, books, Dalai Lama, Doctor Who, ebooks, Humor, Jon Stewart, Neil Gaiman, planet of the apes, Soylent Green, zombie apocalypse
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A Clue To The Eternal Paradox Is Revealed
The time has come the walrus said to talk of my now-infamous Alice In Wonderland Birthday party. I was approximately seven years old when my mother started reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass to me at night … Continue reading
Try Antifreeze For That Youthful Glow
Today is my birthday. As many of my friends will tell you, I am ridiculously hard on myself. So I greet my birthdays with a rather punitive evaluation of where I’ve been, where I want to be, and all the … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, bacon, birthday, birthday wishes, congress, Facebook, golf, Heidi Klum, Humor, influence, iTunes, Jean Harlow, Joshua Jackson, Klout, Marilyn Monroe, Project Runway, StumbleUpon, Twitter, writer
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Shards of Fire and Ice
It is a place called Venice, and I am eight. Waterways crammed between ancient buildings, a man wearing a hat rows a funny-looking boat downstream with a long oar. He deposits us at our destination and floats off beneath a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, Corning Museum of Glass, Craftsman, Creativity, Dale Chihuly, Glass, Glass Masters At Work, Glassblowing, history of glass, inspiration, Liam Carey, Lino Tagliapietra, Merlin Glass, Murano, Murano glass, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, New York Botanical Garden, sculpture, Venice, writing
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Skin Deep
Hello friends. My apologies for taking so long to post. My paid gig has been driving me to the brink. Below is a story I’ve been working on for quite some time. (You may all remember in a previous post … Continue reading
Happy Father’s Day
To all you dad’s out there. But especially to my remarkable dad. A man who is constantly reinventing himself to this day. Dad, your humor and intellect have impacted my life in a million different ways. Thanks for being you. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal Gayle, Family, family photographs, father, fathers day, Holiday, Parenting, Wallpaper
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Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax
From time to time I ask myself the important questions in life. For example, why is the dog in this picture pushing a baby carriage? Do I get enough fiber? How much NYC soot can I inhale before becoming the proverbial … Continue reading
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Tagged bosoms, Breasts, dirty laundry, Dog pushing a baby carriage, Flotation Device, funny, George Clooney, Goats, Humor, iPhone, Junkmail, Mail, Mother, NYC, Push up bra, Questions, underwear, writer, writing
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