Bored of the Board

Him: Cough.
Him: Cough, cough. Clear throat.
Him: Cough, cough, cough, cough, ahem.
Me: Excuse me.
Him: Cough.
Me: Okay loser. I spent a lot on these subscriptions, this is my last concert of the year and if you cough one more time, I will take this dart gun from my handbag and blow poison […]

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Constrained by manners no more:
Her: “We had some drama in my house today.”
Me: Who gives a shit, lady. I have a life and a job too.
Her: “G. got to the dentist 15 minutes late, and the dentist left!”
Me: Well, Hail Holy Queens. Probably on his way to buy earplugs and a […]

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Field trips are a helluva lot better now that I’m not a child. My daughter’s fourth-grade class took its annual field trip to Ellis Island and a bus full of parents came along. It was nice that they separated us from the children. We had coffee and donuts on the way up, margaritas on the […]

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Today is what is known on the Catholic calendar as Good Friday. This is arguably the holiest and certainly most solemn day in the Christian world as we recall the unlawful sentencing, torture and death of a deity at the hands of secular justice, as encouraged by religionists to whom said deity had become a […]

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