EVERY WEEKDAY MORNing at 7 a.m., while I make my lunch for the day, I…
Humor, Wit and Wisdom
Candance Booth, age 5, with party hat I want spring to arrive with an Easter…
We started off the month with the office’s first annual chili cookoff. In general I avoid…
IN LIEU OF THE TRIP TO France to paint at Giverny, I took a three-day…
I HEARD MY MANAGER REFER to “skunk work” the other day, and I had to…
AS A TECHNICAL WRITER, I’m often in the position of rewriting someone else’s draft. In…
I just got back from vacation in North Carolina. It in a way, it was…
I have acquaintances who are changing their names. I say “acquaintance” rather than “friend” because I…
When I moved to Iowa in 1973, I didn’t like it much. It seemed like…
What I got this month was more like anti-color therapy, and all because I wanted…
BY DAN COFFEY The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between…
BY DAN COFFEY In a Seattle bar, I sang karaoke with the band Heart in…
After wrestling with trying to find a larger-than-life identity that fits, I think I’ve finally…
BY DAN COFFEY What is a midlife crisis, anyway? If I had one, it was…
BY DAN COFFEY Students always want the teacher to tell them what parts of the…