Ban Brussels Sprouts
2013-01-18 – I don’t care if Brussels sprouts are good for you. They disgust me! So I am calling for a national ban. In making this call, I am relying […]
Tag Archives: Culture
No Matter What You Do
2013-01-16 – No matter what you do, your cough will last for 18 day, according to a study reported by NBC News. If you like numbers, the mean duration is […]
Digital Toes
2012-12-26 – I don’t stoop to pick my clothes off the floor. I can grasp things with my toes. It’s a little awkward, but a works. Typing is a little […]
Quiet Car
2012-12-05 – The Metra North Line has two quiet cars, one at each end of the train. It wasn’t always like this. The practice has been in effect for maybe […]
Talking to Strangers
2012-09-03 – By the third time, I knew something was up. A cute coed, a girl I never laid eyes on, said hi as I passed. The first one I […]
Iowa Girls
2012-08-18 – Met two girls while we were in Iowa. The first girl was a waitress in one of those small towns whose boundaries are marked by a sequence of […]
Next Week’s Laundry
2012-08-12 – I’m not sure when I first became aware of Pete Seeger, but it couldn’t have been any later than the Summer of 1969, because that’s when I bought […]
