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• Mary and Pearl Go To Florida; Or Why Yes, I Do Drink ‘Em Eight at a Time. Why...

  Hey! There you are! Today’s story is a continuation of yesterday’s, wherein I find myself pressured to play pool, which was a continuation of the story the day... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mary and Pearl Go to Florida; Or Mr. Frampton Appears to Have Fallen on Hard...

  A continuation of yesterday's story, which was a continuation of Monday's and Tuesday's. Catch up, won't you? I'll wait right here. Ooooh, maybe I should pick u... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mary and Peggy Go to Florida; Or Small Bar, Anytown, USA

  Did you miss me incur the pudgy-fingered wrath of airport Security? Did you miss Mary actually get detained at airport Security? It's not too late to catch up.... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mary and Pearl Go to Florida; Or I Don’t Know Anyone Who Thinks of Them as True...

  Balancing on one foot while re-shodding myself, stuffing my laptop into my carry-on and briefly marveling over the way my left leg sets off metal detectors yet... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mary and Pearl Go to Florida; Or First, Let’s See If They Make It Through...

  If there’s anything better than a ride to the airport – one that is accompanied by a delicious and utterly free coffee drink – then I don’t know what it is.... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wherein My Body Has a Good Talk with My Brain

  My body has had quite a lot to say recently. It started talking last Thursday, when I developed the headache that I now carry with me at all times. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Graffiti! Or Free Tibet (With Purchase of Large Coffee)

  I gave myself a case of Vandal-Fighters Thumb this morning. My stance on vandalism is well known in these parts: I’m against it. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hey - What's with the Holes in Your Ceiling?

  I sat at Mary’s house the other night. Bowls of home-made chili and slabs of freshly baked bread comfortably downed, we sat in the living room, her dog T-Bone,... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Employment; Or You Got Any Change?

  The young man begging in front of the LRT station is wearing a brand new pair of Timberlands; clean, fashionable jeans; and a very nice woolen greatcoat. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Don’t Forget to Tip Your Waitstaff

  The bus driver, a cheery man in a Metropolitan Transit-issued sweater, is rotated through to the #17 on perhaps a quarterly basis. A smiling, whimsical person,... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• To Travel Lightly

  Columbia Heights, a neighborhood with a definite working-class bent, was teeming with garage sales. Friday afternoon’s take? One black leather jacket, which... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• It's Perfectly Normal; Or Dolly Gee Is Going Through a Phase

  Some houses contain stacks of books. In some houses, you find mounds of cat toys. Tidy piles of receipts. Dozens of empty Fresca cans in the recycling. And in... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Starch? At the Ready!

  It’s a flurry of excitement, here at Casa de Pearl, as I ready myself for another foray into black-pantsed-and-white-shirted encounters of the catering kind. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mary Be Squeezy

  Neatly coiffed, hands clasped behind our backs, Mary and I rock gently on our heels, striving for a look that says both “I’m here to serve” and “Please don’t as... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Yet Another Lousy Post About Winter

  The grayness… I look around, note the frozen hipsters on the bus (once their skin goes black, there’s nothing to do but mash them up and make bread with them). Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• I've Got So Many Ideas

  I once worked at a place where the corporate bathroom was more like a living room: couches, a little TV, even a little sewing kit for those early-morning seam... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• You There! With the Shiny Eyes!

  We here at Acme Napkins and Grommets believe in keeping in touch, whether you like it or not. Got something to say? NOT got something to say? Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wherein I Find Tim Conway in My Muffler

  

  A re-post! Enjoy, while I wrap my head around other projects... “Tell me again,” he says. “What’s wrong with your car?” “Besides the leprosy?” Jon stares at... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• The House on the Hill; Or, Hey. That Was Kind of Scary.

  “Tell me a favorite story of yours that you haven’t told yet,” she says. I look off to the left, slightly upward, and think. “I have one,” I say, “I don’t know... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Think I Recognize That Dune

  “We should take a walk down to the beach,” she says. I look out the window, out to the ocean. It is 64 degrees out – a good fifty degrees warmer than home –... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2015 HUMOR, SELF EXPRESSION