I Feel Your Pain If I see one more bumper sticker crowing about how awesome someone’s kid is, I might just have to side swipe their car, thus sending these pretentious jackasses careening into the ditch below. Honest to God, can you just get over yourselves already and stop with the self-congratulatory affirmations meant to […]
Father’s Day
I want to focus my theme this week on an often-overlooked group: fathers. Mothers are, after all, the sexier role to play, in more ways than one. When professional football players score a touchdown and the camera finds them celebrating on the sidelines, whom do they thank? Mom. And when you need someone to comfort […]
To Protect and Serve
To Protect and Serve So I’m going to write a piece about police officers, and I am not going to focus on aspects of police brutality or latent discrimination. I’m even going to refrain from the easy comedic go-to of donut and fitness jokes. Today I want to question what role law enforcement should play […]
The Loss of a Mythical Figure
The Loss of a Mythical Figure It doesn’t often rain in Colorado, but when it does, it sure can come down in buckets. Today is precisely one of those days. The rain is pouring down relentlessly, and the dog is nestled up at my feet as I drink coffee and stare out into the gloomy, eerie […]
Now That I’m Old….
Now that I’m Old…. You know what birthdays are good for? Well, perhaps for some, they are the opportunity for asking your partner for a bit of extra romantic attention (wink wink), but that’s not quite what I was thinking of here. No, when you get to my age, birthdays are no longer an opportunity […]
It’s Just a Damn Joke!
It’s Just a Damn Joke So I was talking to an old college friend the other day, one of my regular readers- part of my legion of adoring fans who hang dotingly upon each word I write. She hadn’t had time to read my recent column on the disconnect between American mediocrity and our continued […]
We’re Not #1!!!!!
Can you feel the palpable excitement hanging in the air? That’s right, folks: The 2016 Summer Olympics from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil are almost upon us. Less than 90 days away, the Olympics are Americans’ opportunity to embrace their country by wearing egregiously tacky apparel of national pride, fashion atrocities so horrific that they remind […]
Trauma on the Monkeybars: An Ode to Fear in the Media
I am not usually at a loss for subject matter. In fact, I generally feel like “writer’s block” is the excuse of hack professional writers who need an excuse for the weed and whiskey bender that lasts for a week, or at least as long as it takes them to binge watch Downton Abbey. […]
Oh the Profanity!
For those of you who are unaware, my uncle is also a writer, and a darn good one at that. Yes, my uncle Geoff has written a wonderful work, Scudder’s Gorge, that speaks poignantly about our potential for both violence and love towards our fellow human beings. In any case, I’m not just trying to […]
The Cognitive Dissonance of Sports Fandom
The Cognitive Dissonance of Sports Fandom So this is the second installment of my reaction to Curt Schilling’s recent firing by ESPN for an insensitive Facebook post Schilling made about transgenders in the wake of the new North Carolina bathroom law requiring that people use the bathroom corresponding to the gender delineation from their birth […]