Live Your Life Instead of Filming It Last week, in writing about the impact of a generation of parents who eschew actually parenting their children, I told the story of our recent experience at the Venardo’s Circus as two children traipsed across the patron boundary rope while their parents blithely ignored them and recorded the […]
Just Say No to Your Kids Have you ever gone to a concert or theater performance and found yourself growing increasingly agitated as some kid seated near you was permitted to prattle on endlessly whilst their parents, clearly habituated to the mindless ramblings, blithely ignored them? Have you ever just about lost your everlasting mind […]
Let Freedom Ring…..or not For years now as an English teacher, I have struggled to come up with the perfect example to teach my students about irony. Underwhelmingly, I have often found myself resorting to that insipid Alannis Morisette song, but somehow focusing on “10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife” (please excuse […]
The Supreme Court Just Grabbed Women (and the rest of us) by the Pussy I am angry today. Like seething, foaming-at-the-mouth angry. That’s because, like many of you, I woke up Tuesday morning to the news of the leaked U.S. Supreme Court opinion that is set to undo generations of legal protections for women’s reproduction […]
Tucker Carlson Can Lick My Untanned Balls I will start this week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less by preemptively apologizing for the blunt vulgarity of this week’s title. I know it is certainly licentious, but believe it or not, I only incorporate profanity as an aesthetic or rhetorical choice, and in this particular case, […]
High Dives and Lawn Darts When I was a kid growing up in Canton, Connecticut, the Mill Pond town pool installed a high dive during the summer of 1978. It was awesome. For one glorious summer, we would climb the heights of the 10’ ladder and plummet recklessly into the depths of the awaiting waters […]
“Toxic Masculinity” is Toxic I keep a list of potential topics for TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less in the Notes app on my phone. Like comedians who jot down ideas for jokes, I use this method to keep track of random, often scattered thoughts that come to me in a moment of divine inspiration, […]
Saving the World One Lasagna at a Time I’ll be the first to acknowledge that I’ve been a bit of a downer recently. Not so much in my personal day-to-day life where I continue to be the affable, rosy-eyed optimist everyone knows and loves, but rather here in TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less. Let’s […]
Social Media Brings Out the Worst in All of Us What is it about social media that turns all of us (yes, myself included) into utter raging assholes? Don’t believe me or think that you’re the exception to this rule? Let me tell you about the two posts I put up on Facebook last week. […]
The Biology of Sex Yes, folks, it’s March, and you know what that means- March Madness!! There’s nothing better than filling out your bracket each year with a vague sense of unfounded optimism only to watch the whole thing blow up in your face with each and every closely-contested buzzer-beater like the dynamite-filled birthday cake […]
