Obstruction Junction- What’s Your Function? As a grammar teacher, I love showing my classes those old school Schoolhouse Rock videos that informed much of our knowledge in between Scooby Doo cartoons in the 1970’s. In fact, if it weren’t for Schoolhouse Rock, I’m pretty sure I, and many of my late 40’s/early 50’s brethren, wouldn’t […]
A Furry Situation
A Furry Situation I love when readers send me ideas for topics for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. More often than not, they tend to be clever and thoughtful suggestions. This past week, a friend of mine texted me and said that I should write about high school students who have started to “identify” […]
The Delicate Art of Letting Go
The Delicate Art of Letting Go In full transparency, a rare glimpse behind the curtain as to how I write TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, I will often pen less topical columns and save them for a later date, when nothing particularly pressing is occurring that I feel a desperate need to opine about. […]
The 7 Lessons We Can Learn From Our Dogs
The 7 Lessons We Can Learn From Our Dogs All throughout my childhood, the one thing I ever really wanted was a dog. Ok, maybe as I got into my adolescent years, that desire was similarly accompanied by a strong hankering to have a girlfriend, a yearning that likewise went unrequited well into early adulthood. […]
New Year’s Resolutions I Am Sure Not to Keep 2023
New Years Resolutions I’m Sure Not to Keep-2023 Time sure has a funny way of making one feel old. At some point or another, you start watching the calendar roll over on New Year’s Eve and wonder when the hell the numbers began to sound like something out of a Sci-Fi flick. When Orwell penned […]
Jesus’s Xmas Wish List 2022
Well, folks, the Christmas season is truly upon us. How do I know? Well, when the parking lot at your local mall starts to resemble the scene before a stadium-packed Dead show and the advent calendar has only a couple of unopened doors (behind which may lay only a vacant repository vanquished by impatient, candy-addicted […]
The True Cause of Rising Inflation
The True Cause of Rising Inflation I’ve never taken an Econ class in my life. Still, I feel like I have as good a grasp on the central principles of macroeconomics as any of the pundits bloviating about the various potential causes of inflation. Over the last several weeks, I have seen economists blaming everyone […]
Acting is NOT Appropriation
Acting is NOT Appropriation Somehow the Christmas season just isn’t the same without some version or another of Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”. Call me old school (which some of you will do regardless), but there is just something about Dickens’s themes of redemption, communal brotherhood, and charitable giving that ring true with the spirit of […]
Republicans Dealt It Because They Smelt It
Republicans Dealt it Because They Smelt It I don’t know about all of you, but I can barely type this sentence given that I am struggling to keep my head above this drowning red wave from the 2022 election. Suddenly, I know how Detroit Lions fans feel each season as they wait in anticipation for […]
What I’m Thankful For: 2022 Edition
What I’m Thankful for: 2022 Edition Note: TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less will be off next week in recognition of the Thanksgiving holiday, but until then, please enjoy our 2022 edition of What I’m Thankful For… I must admit that I am surprised as anyone that this is officially the 8th installment of my […]