One of my most treasured inheritances from Mom is a photocopied poem, surrounded by a hand-made sussy purple oval, held in a clunky, old wooden frame. The poem is by Jenny Joseph. It’s not long: WARNING “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t […]
Read More...Sometimes your heart breaks. I was at the skin doctor last week to have a few more pounds of ugly cut off the top of my head. But when I arrived at the clinic, there was no receptionist; just three people standing in line. I joined them in the line for about five minutes, but […]
Read More...*Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius, was keeper of the imperial archives in the province of Honan in the sixth century B.C. All his life he taught that “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao”, which makes you wonder what exactly the guy was being paid for. Anyways, according to […]
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The hand that rocks the cradle may rule the world, but football coaches are kings, in Oklahoma or Singapore. I was still jet-lagged in 1982, when my buddy dragged me straight from Changi Airport to the Singapore American School’s football field. Even though an oilfield company had spent $250,000 sodding the field, the annual monsoon […]
Read More...Caption: Selfie … which is why I normally wear a hat. (Editor’s note: This has been your high-brow humor for the day.) .
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(Editor’s Note: Holy, not funny, is the order of the day). Susan Conroy decided to “go work with a living saint” in 1986. So, at just 21 years old, she left her home in small town Maine and flew to Calcutta. “I had no talents. No special skills. But I’d read […]
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(Republishing this vintage blog because it’s Lent!) In New Zealand, we’ve already begun Lent — 40 days of prayer, fasting and penance leading up to Easter. Since this is a humor blog, I will begin my Lent by republishing a favorite about two great priests who were incredibly funny in very different […]
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