The Loudest Holiday
The 4th of July: the loudest holiday Hey everybody; you know all that anxiety that’s been building up? Well, just let it go and relax now, because the 4th … Read more
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Mother’s and Father’s Day Greeting Cards: Cost or Quality?
Greeting cards: Message quality varies with the cost When recently browsing the greeting cards rack, I discovered a disturbing trend: card prices continue to climb; and while cheap … Read more
The Two Tooth Advantage
Labor Day: This holiday is for you The plume of a great doom now looms. Talking about that wonderfully hideous first Monday in September — Labor Day. Yeah, … Read more
How to Get the Most Out of Your Labor Day Weeke…Oh Look a Squirrel!
Musings on the Labor Day holiday In honor of all those hard-working people who are taking a day off (actually, only the people lucky enough to have bosses … Read more
Lost Journal: The Labor Day Housework Marathon
Journal entry: September 7, 2009 (age 40) – Labor Day Housework Marathon This afternoon, I wore a huge, frozen smile as I walked over to my wife, Amanda, … Read more
Holiday Formerly Known as ‘Thanksgiving’ to be Called ‘Selfish-Taking’
Due to the state of our society, ‘Thanksgiving’ is to be renamed Thanksgiving, once a proud cornerstone of our traditional American holidays with roots harkening back to our … Read more
The Least Laboring of Days
It’s Labor Day, everybody! Hey, it’s Labor Day, everybody. Woo-hoo. Okay, we’re partying now. Throw your arms in the air and wave them like you just don’t care. … Read more
Fireworks in the Fog
Transcending partisanship: Fireworks & barbeque Aaaah. Fourth of July. The Great American Holiday. Dead-solid-center summer. Picnics, baseball, watermelon, fireworks, fifth graders flying past with red, white and blue … Read more
Why Isn’t There a War on Easter?
Why does the outrage machine not crank up around the end of February to “take back Easter from the godless?” Why haven’t these clever secularists tried to take … Read more
Lost Journal: ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving
Journal entry: November 22, 2006 (age 37) — Thanksgiving poem Why does Christmas get to have all the poems? Here’s one I just dreamed up in a Thanksgiving tryptophan-induced … Read more
