Tips on Avoiding Holiday Heartburn
How to skirt messy election questions at holiday dinners and preserve your sanity. And now a public service announcement for all you prodigal sons and daughters making the … Read more
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Not Sure If You’re Actually Having Sex? I Can Help!
Having an affair without having ‘actual sex’? Yeah, right. When I stumbled upon evidence that the man I’d loved and trusted for 20 years had a secret girlfriend … Read more
What the American People Want
Which is scarier: That Trump or Clinton will be the next president, or that the American people get to decide? So the conventions are over and we’ve entered … Read more
Just Another Day at Your Local Public Library
Wherein librarians tackle tasks that weren’t in their job descriptions at the library. We librarians are expected to check out your books and answer your reference questions, but … Read more
Leaping Librarian!
Bone density advice from your prune-eating, leaping librarian For my last annual check-up, I had a bone density scan and got a nasty surprise. Like far too many … Read more
Bringing Back Bill
A Bill Clinton redux? What’s past, as Shakespeare has told us, is prologue. 2016 has been a wild political season. This year, despite the unnerving presidential freak show … Read more
Fury About Inequality Fuels Bernie/Donnie Phenomena
Public rage at glaring inequality is fueling the surge of the Bernie and Trump campaigns Jack Nicholson dryly noted that his mother once called him a son of … Read more
Humor Times’ Paul Lander a Finalist in the 2nd Annual Bloggers Bash Awards
The author of the ‘Ripping the Headlines Today’ column is a finalist, and eyeing yet another award! Paul Lander is a finalist in the 2nd Annual Bloggers Bash … Read more
Op Ed: Clinton Emails Raise Gefilte Fish Issue
One gefilte fish lover’s effort to treat the whole matter with the seriousness it deserves. Many American Jews enjoyed gefilte fish at this year’s Passover Seder, but they … Read more
What Does it Mean to Gig American Workers?
The “gig economy” sends most of the profits out of town Pouty, whiney, spoiled-bratism is not nice coming from a four-year-old — but it’s grotesque when it comes … Read more
