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It was a hot day.  The Universe knew that on such a hot day the task would be arduous and thankless.   It cursed humanity for global warmin...

"In retrospect, the warning signs were there," a concept immortalized by Frank Sinatra in the line "a Monday morning quarter...

As John Donne so eloquently put it: No man is an island,[…] any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and theref...

So I recently moved from southern Brazil back to California. The first order of business was to set up an office space from which I could c...

Every morning they found solace in an age old routine.  She got up first, used the bathroom and went into the kitchen to make herself a bowl...

Today I walked over a historic monument into a 700 year old institution and paid to contribute to the deaths of thousands. You don’t b...

The young man selects the prefect smooth, round, flat stone on the shore of the lake.   He brushes it off with his hand and examines it...

If you live in the modern world and you have convictions you are a hypocrite.  You are, you just never stopped to think about the subject.  ...

“Mommy, mommy, I throwed the ball” The mother smiles at her three year old’s absolutely adorable and intuitive conjugation of the verb to th...

You know when you’re sitting in your living room and suddenly a bean of sunlight streams into the window and you sit there staring at it?   ...

The demise of perfection or the day I read Dropped Names by Frank Langella There have ever only been two perfect men in the history of hum...

Fire Ashton Kutcher hire Donald Trump The thing that makes Two and a Half Men work is extremes.  The show’s humor is mostly derived from th...

A well dressed, somewhat distinguished gentleman walks into an UNICEF office.  He approaches the young woman at the front desk with a “Good ...

I voted for Obama and I’m going to vote for him again, not because he’s doing a stellar job, but because president Romney would be disastrou...

Little Red Riding Hood is startled by the little girl who just materialized in front of her.   She stumbles a few steps back on the road...