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Air Travel Sucks Out Loud and It’s Our Fault

[I’m back on my home town of Skeeterville for Christmas with my 91-year-old mother this week, so I’m reposting a rant I did back in April ’17 about air travel. Seems seasonally apropos, yes? Sadly, air travel hasn’t improved in the intervening years. And in lieu of the infamous “Happy Holidays,” let me say to […]

The Thing About the Cousins

It’s the Special Relationship, so we’ve been told for many years. It’s some vestigial trans-Atlantic umbilical cord connecting us Yanks with the British. Since Almost Everything Memorable Ever Said In English (Not By Shakespeare) is by default attributed to Winston Churchill, most people think he coined the phrase “Special Relationship.” As with the majority of […]

A Rose Is a Rose?

A couple of years ago, Kay-Kay and I were out visiting our daughter Peanut and her family—which most importantly included our then two-year-old grandson, Goober. We took the Goob out with us one day to a supermarket with a Truly Impressive Display of fresh-cut flowers right when you walk in the doors. This floor plan […]

Going Postal Overseas

My wife, Kay-Kay, and I have spent a lot of time in foreign countries. We lived together—sometimes married, sometimes not— for four years in two countries. One was Italy, where they do not speak English. The other was Scotland, where they speak something almost akin to English. We’ve also done a lot of shorter stays, […]

You Have Permission to Eat Out on Thanksgiving

I haven’t engaged in a public act of apostasy in at least six or seven days. OK, maybe two or three days. All right, how long since my last tweet? Whatever, I feel like I’m overdo, so here goes. You have permission to eat out this Thanksgiving. Really. Let’s face it, Thanksgiving is a somewhat […]

À la Recherche du Impêchements Perdu

You see how I hoodwinked you into reading this blog with a pretentiously worded French title? You thought this was going to be some hilarious deep dive into the literature of Marcel Proust, didn’t you? But what it says is “in search of past impeachments.” Well, actually it says, “In search of past peachy things,” […]

Our Great National Shame

[I’m doing a presentation for the Fairfield Library in Richmond this Veterans Day weekend on “The First World War and the Modern Age” as well as introducing and doing Q&A for a special screening of Peter Jackson’s stunning documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old. To commemorate Veterans Day, I’m sharing again this post on a […]

Flying in the BUFF (Part Two)

[Hectic week for my Various Day Jobs, so I’m republishing the post that my website metrics show is by far my most popular ever. You can also read “Flying in the BUFF, Part One” and “Flying in the BUFF, Part Three” HERE!] I wrote a post back in August spilling secrets about my days flying […]

Whoa, Canada!

[Author’s update: I wrote this blog post BEFORE my third novel, No Hero’s Welcome, hit #1 on Amazon’s Canada Best Seller List in both Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction on Friday. Which only made me love Canada all the more.] I love Canada. I mean, I really love Canada. And come to think of it, […]

The Kurds and Me

I’m utterly heartbroken. It’s going to be hard to be funny this week. What the United States has done in abandoning the Kurds in northern Syria is beyond forgiveness. I don’t care about your politics or your opinion of the Current Occupant of the White House. This was one of the most dishonorable things we […]