An article popped into my feed from History the other day. The headline grabbed me immediately: “Why the Inventor of the Cubicle Came to Despise His Own Creation”. If you’ve ever worked in a cubicle, as did I, that headline may have restored a little of your faith, as it did mine. My faith was […]
My friend, Rick, and I had our families at roughly the same time. His daughters are about the same ages as my sons. When the kids were small, Rick called their efforts to test their boundaries running for daylight, an expression used to describe what running backs do in football. I never forgot his characterization. […]
Author’s Note: On Tuesday, December 2nd, I published a sarcastic, facetious post on my Substack account about a gluten-free Thanksgiving dinner. It may prove the adage, “Just because you can do something, that doesn’t mean you should.” The truth is we had a close shave. But the person who would have insisted the clan adhere […]
Those of you with total recall may recall The Great Cologuard Scam Parts One, Two, and Three. If so, you were probably praying to everything good and holy that there wouldn’t be a Part Four. Well, I hate to disappoint you, but … You may remember two things in particular from Part One: My surgical […]
I don’t know what things are like in the rest of the world or the rest of the United States for that matter. But in the Northeast part of the United States, at least in Connecticut, climate change seems to be producing more wind. I don’t mean there are higher speeds or higher velocities to […]
Candor compels me to admit I laugh at my own jokes. And few things make me laugh harder than when I tell a joke and nothing happens. I’ll give you two examples. In 1978, I had a job selling clothes for a now-defunct retail outlet in Westfarms, a mall on the West Hartford–Farmington town line […]
The other day, I saw an excerpt from some self-book or other telling me it’s never too late to change — attitudes, convictions, hairstyles, even careers. So, since I love true-crime books, documentaries, and TV programs so much, I’m going to change careers and become a private detective. Plus, I have an idea for the […]
Rumors, as we know, in part due to the inscrutable vagaries of human nature, are wont to take on lives of their own. As they circulate, accruing gravity and credibility, they’re accepted, taken for granted, and finally accepted as truth. And so it is that, in a series of ever-widening circles, it was alleged — […]
While I certainly enjoyed getting costumed up and heading out to collect a sack full of candy on Halloween as a kid, even then I wondered what it was all about. As it turns out, Halloween’s origins are part of my Irish heritage. All Hallows’ Eve, now abbreviated as Halloween, refers to the evening of […]
I don’t know what’s dying faster, common sense or common courtesy. I’m reminded of that because of an article I saw in Fast Company: “Do you have to say bye to your boss every day?” Here’s all you really need to know from the article: It’s the end of the workday. You’re ready to bounce. […]
