As you pop that fun-sized candy bar you just rummaged from your kid’s dwindling Halloween booty into your gullet, consider this: You only have two weeks left. Two weeks before the grocery store starts looking more like a Caligula-era Coliseum, when otherwise mild-mannered citizens try to scratch each other’s eyes out and grocery carts become…
Book Review
The Old Man and the Degree
About an hour into the trip, I blew a royal gasket. “If you think for one cotton-picking minute that I’m just here to play chauffeur while you visit these colleges, you’d better think again!” I blared at my teenage son from the driver’s seat as our car chugged down the Massachusetts Turnpike. I knew our…
Boo Bags and the Future of Humanity
Perhaps it’s the fault of the Me Generation. Perhaps responsibility lies with our culture of excess. Perhaps Emeril is to blame for teaching us all to “BAM! Kick it up a notch.” Whatever the cause, modern American society has an insatiable desire for more, More, MORE; and nowhere is that more evident than during holidays…
The Flip-side of Fall
Ah, fall … That glorious time of year when the air seems infused with the essence of the changing seasons. The aroma of just-harvested fruits and late-blooming vegetation, the nip of imminent winter, and the brilliant hues of flora and sky. Beautiful. However, like most things in life, there’s a flip-side. And nowhere is this…
What I believe about Hell and hand baskets