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June 30, 2025
Humor Writer of the Month: Paul Noth
Paul Noth, our Humor Writer of the Month for July, is the 2025 winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor in Cartoon Arts.
June 29, 2025
Crowning Around

When you break a tooth that you’ve already had a root canal on, you root for your dentist to get to the root of the problem.

June 28, 2025
Who's Publishing What: The View From Lake Como

USA Today calls Adriana Trigiani "one of the reigning queens of women's fiction." Her latest book, The View From Lake Como, is a bighearted, hilarious novel of the moment: the story of one woman's determination to live a creative life that matters, with enough room left over for love.

June 22, 2025
The Golden Boys

Thanks to the wonderful values instilled in me at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont, where I graduated magna cum lager, I do not (as yet) have a criminal record.

June 15, 2025
The Hair Apparent

If a shampoo were ever named after me, which would work everyone else into a lather, it would be called Empty Head & Shoulders.

That’s because I have more gray matter on the outside of my head than I do on the inside.

June 04, 2025
Who's Publishing What: Grief Like Yours
A new anthology, Grief Like Yours: A Story Collection of Life After Loss, contains 55 personal essays and poems, mostly from women, from around the country, Turkey, Italy, Canada and England.
June 01, 2025
Three Chairs for Jerry!

As chairman of the bored in my house, a responsibility I take sitting down, I am thrilled to announce that I have a new chair in my office.

My only worry is that, as with all the other chairs I have ever had, I will lose possession of this one to either my wife or — this has actually happened before — a dog.

June 01, 2025
Humor Writer of the Month: Donna Debs
Author and former humor columnist Donna Debs is our Humor Writer of the Month for June.
May 29, 2025
Heli-Texting: A Helluva Habit

One of the Helicopter Mom’s greatest tools is texting. I know many would say the Life 360 App is the best, but I confess, I have never used it. I’m still old school. I still remember the days when my parents had no idea where I was and what I was doing. And, for that reason, and the fact that if I used that app, I would be a wreck, I have refused to use it. But I was a habitual heli-texter. Yes, you heard me right... "was." I am proud to announce most of my heli-texting days are probably over.

May 25, 2025
The Adventures of a Class Clown

On May 23, 1985, a date which will live in journalistic infamy, my first humor column was published. Now, 40 years later, I am still writing it for two unsound reasons: I am spectacularly unqualified to do anything else and nobody has stopped me.