National Tortilla Chip Day, Hell Insurance, and how to speak Midwest #ThrowbackThursday #humor

February 24, 2022

Happy National Tortilla Chip Day! I went to Des Moines, Iowa. Yes, I did it on purpose and I’d do …

My 9/11 lesson? #America 20 years on…

September 11, 2021

Twenty years ago, September 11, 2001 I’d gone to bed the night before in a world where America was a …

January 7, 2021

…that most admirable of human virtues–courage. ‘Grace under pressure,’ Ernest Hemingway defined it. —John F. Kennedy, first lines of Profiles …

November 1, 2020

Vote now… Or we get to blame everything on you for the next four years. Your choice.

October 2, 2020

I just voted. And I’m devastated… As an expat with absentee ballot, I was able to vote early. But there’s …

July 24, 2020

Every woman I know agrees. Every man should. It hasn’t always been easy lately to be an American. It’s never …

June 3, 2020

June 2, 2020

It’s not an easy time to be American. Our country, like many others, has been ravaged by Coronavirus, with over …

November 4, 2018

What Scots think Americans eat What Americans think Scots eat Hungry yet?

October 9, 2018

Or does it just taste that way? Purely in the name of scientific research, I’ve recently been investigating. Our …