Monthly Archives: October 2009

Halloween this year falls on a Saturday. This is great news for everyone and everything – candy companies, dentists, purveyors of slutty nurse costumes for adult revelers – except mailboxes. I don’t know if there are statistics to back me … Continue reading →

My late uncle was divorced four times in his life and married five. I honestly don’t know if it was because he liked weddings or because he always fell in love with women with whom, in the end, he was … Continue reading →

A quarter of a century — 25 years — is a long time. It’s four years more than the era that separated the first and second world wars. It’s roughly the epochal chasm that divided the end of that Second … Continue reading →

Elaine Matsushita and the Snoopster.com explored my house this autumn. And Elaine, I learned, is a very, very funny writer. (Thanks, Elaine!) She even learned about the noose in my attic.  To read her delightful story and see the photos, … Continue reading →

Years ago, in the very early 1990s, I was the slowest driver in Vermont. I was that guy that people hate even more than the 9-year-old kid sitting next to them on the regional jet who has a half-dozen ketchup … Continue reading →