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Cupid, Couples and Congressman Paul Ryan
An extravagant fairy tale wedding justifies its price tag only if daddy’s little princess can walk down the aisle knowing her friends are bitterly jealous. That FTD teapot floral arrangement on your...
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Anywhere But Here
I followed the crowd, more correctly, I was swept up in the surge of people heading towards a destination that held some great importance. It was late in the evening on the final Saturday night of the...
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Tattoos, Taxidermy and Catching Forever Like Fireflies In a Jar
“Forever.” Everyone covets it, everyone dreams about it, but no one really understands it. Many of my kind have shattered and collapsed under the ponderous weight of their unreasonable expectations of...
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On An Elevator With Ted and Judy and Rick Santorum
There is something appealing about hotel lounges, not the bar in the lobby that attracts a crowd of after work drunks every evening, but the swanky cocktail lounge perched high up above the city. Maybe...
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I’ll Be Damned
I own an old embossed red leather-bound edition of the New Testament with the page edges extravagantly gilded in gold foil. The text holds no interest for me, but midway through the handsome volume is...
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Ask Alexios: Paul Ryan Wipes His Nose With a Sandwich and Other Bad Behavior
Alexios, After a great performance review at work I received a promotion. I have worked very hard coming up with new ideas and cost saving measures that have benefited my department and the company as...
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Tragedy: The Titanic and A Fat Girl On The Bus
Time is difficult to measure. Listening to a person talk about their grandchildren’s adorable antics can seem to drag on endlessly while it feels like only yesterday that I first heard the alarming...
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Ask Alexios: No Fool Like An Old Fool
Alexios, I’m 54 years old and not ashamed of it. I look damn good for my age and have the work done to prove it. I recently went to a company outing and a group of younger co-workers were all dancing....
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TV Time: Finding Bigfoot. Something To Believe In
I have never worn my hair in a mullet, nor have I danced the Macarena. When the Romans went crazy over Isis, I shook my head with derision and ignored the foolishness just as I would do thousands of...
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Ask Alexios: Eating Your Own
Alexios, I have been married for two years. A few weeks ago my wife gave birth to our son…our first child. We weren’t trying, but we were very excited when Meghan found out she was expecting. I was in...
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