I was sitting on the couch, thumbing through a book. The children were gathered around the dining room table making signs to decorate the new fort they had built with pillows and blankets in the rec room. A voice called out to me.
“V!” it said, “Can you help us spell some words for our sign?”
“Sure, [...]
Guest Writer: Jim McPartland
I was heading back from Avon, CT on my way to Milford Saturday from a writers networking meeting. I was on my way to its annual Oyster Festival, an event that draws 40,000. Foghat was the free headliner. Bob ‘Jake’ McManus loved Foghat as a kid. I liked them too and it’s [...]
This year, Christmas for me included a trip to the hospital.
I woke up Christmas day with a fairly bad headache. Knowing that a trip to my in-laws would likely make said headache worse as opposed to better, I gulped down a few aspirin. Suddenly remembering the entitled shrill of my gluttonous sister in law’s voice, [...]
I was supposed to post This Link and tell you all that I got 58 of them correct. I’m not sure why the guy who runs my site wants you all to believe that I’m smarter than I am since it’s a well known fact that I’m a fucking moron, but I’m going to fess [...]
Kyle was a jackass.
Four months after hiring him for a pretty prestigious paid internship and that was the nicest quality I could ascribe to him, too. Kyle spent his work week fooling around, hitting on the female interns, and surfing the Internet. Assigning Kyle tasks was an exercise in futility. He was too busy [...]
