By Jerry Zezima At the risk of throwing myself under the bus, which isn’t much of a risk because the bus is stopped, I plead guilty to passing a stopped school bus. I couldn’t believe I had done something so stupid — and I do stupid things all the time — because I don’t text […]

“Jerry proves that one can grow old gracefully and with great humor, while maturing not at all.” – Dave Jaffe, author of “Sleeping Between Giants: Life, If You Can Call It That, With a Terrier” If age is just a number, then Jerry Zezima gets an A in creative math. In this, his sixth book, […]

“Who could envision Jerry Zezima emerging as the Will Rogers of retirement? Only anyone who’s ever read his laugh-out-loud columns on the absurdities of daily life. …” – Kevin Cowherd, New York Times bestselling author of “Hothead” Who says winners never quit and quitters never win? Not Jerry Zezima, who has the winning formula for […]

Jerry is at it again. Enjoy! Craig Wilson, former humor columnist at USA Today and author of Its the Little Things Jerry Zezima husband of one, father of two, grandfather of three, author of four is back with his funniest book yet. In Nini and Poppies Excellent Adventures, the nationally syndicated humorist tells tried and […]

What guy takes his granddaughter to the aquarium and spouts fish puns all day? Who accompanies her to a children’s recreation center and almost faints in the bouncy house? And which grandpa goes to the White House Easter Egg Roll so he can introduce his precious pumpkin not to the president but to Peppa Pig? […]

Humorist Jerry Zezima has always had an empty head. Now that his two daughters have flown the coop, he and his wife have an empty nest. The girls aren’t completely out of the house, of course, because a lot of their stuff is still there. Written with warmth and hilarity, “The Empty Nest Chronicles” is […]

It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. Yes, Jerry Zezima swiped that from Dickens, but Dickens is dead and he can’t sue. Besides, it perfectly describes the life of a baby boomer who also happens to be a husband and father. In “Leave It to Boomer,” Jerry Zezima describes in […]

By Jerry Zezima Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the dumbest of them all? The answer was painfully obvious — because I hit my thumb with a hammer — when I tried to hang a mirror on the family room wall. The trouble began when my wife, Sue, brought home a mirror she bought in […]

By Jerry Zezima When I was a kid, I knew all the dinosaurs — not personally, of course, because they were extinct by then and woolly mammoths roamed the earth. But I was a fan of such prehistoric stars as brontosaurus, tyrannosaurus and especially Raquel Welch, who wore a cavewoman bikini in one of my […]

By Jerry Zezima In my hands, which are big and clumsy, tools are dangerous weapons, which is why I generally avoid using saws, hammers, drills and other menacing objects that could slice off a finger, crush a thumb, pummel a palm or otherwise destroy my hands. So imagine my surprise and delight to find out […]