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Tag: Humor

  • Why You Should Try the Worst Writing Job Ever

    Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash The hidden market in compliance prose Here’s some irony: I spent six years writing the driest, most dispassionate prose imaginable, and it helped my creative writing more than any of the artistic work I’ve ever done. Moreover, it paid the bills, left me plenty of time to do my own…

  • Welcome to Your Personal Infinity

    Photo by Patrick McManaman on Unsplash Please don’t muck it up Contrary to what your mother may have told you, you are the center of the universe. And I can prove it. It will only take a moment of your time. Our origin as earthlings People used to believe that the flat planet Earth was, vaguely, the…

  • I Used to Be a Time Lord

    Glynne Hather on Flickr Now I’m all, “What just happened?” One trip in a TARDIS and I was hooked. When I was 12 years old, I made my acting debut as a Lost Boy in a professional regional theatrical production of Peter Pan. I made a very strong showing as Tootles, according to my dad. That’s…

  • Desperation Journals for Writers

    Photo by Jordan Madrid on Unsplash When you’ve just got to try something different Today I have an embarrassing confession to make to all you dedicated writers, journalers, and diarists out there. During all the years that I have been scribbling away in Moleskines and crappy spirals, I have been writing down the wrong things. I…

  • When Jesus’ Email Gets Spoofed

    Yeah. I’m still being misquoted. Photo by Tom Skarbek-Wazynski on Unsplash To: churchgoer15@jesusmail.com; seeker 2051@jesusmail.com; godbreather@jesusmail.com; believersinjustice@jesusmail.com; lovingfolk@jesusmail.com… Subject: Help! I think hackers hit me again! Hey, gang — Hope everyone is well these days. I just wanted to alert you all that I think my email account got hacked, again. You all remember when something like…

  • Riddle Me This

    Lessons in the truly ordinary Why do trucks turn that way? Why are phone menus so aggravating? What makes Möbius strips work? With plenty of complex and consequential issues to think about every day, you might wonder why these small riddles are worth writing about. I wonder that too, but I can’t seem to help myself.…

  • My Secret Names for G*D

    Photograph by Emily Morter on Unsplash. We all have questions. There are probably as many ways of prayer as there are people. Most religious traditions offer forms and formalities to be followed, and most have preferred languages and liturgies. But nearly all serious theologies or philosophies admit human words simply cannot define the Divine. Therefore,…