Top Ten Reasons for Men to Get Married
**WARNING: this blog post contains a really scary spider.** Some months ago, I wrote about the top ten reasons not …
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You know you’re old when…
Every time I go to New York, I learn something new. Last week, I learned that I’m one of these …
It Really Was A Swell Funeral
[NOTE: another blast from the past — adapted from my column that originally ran in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette in 1991.] …
Parenting. This is nothing we were ever trained for.
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Barb Taub, Weekly Column, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Nov. 1989 My mother’s hair is getting pretty grey. As she …
Pussycat, pussycat where have you been?
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s …
Fifty Shades of Earl Grey
I accidentally committed a tea-party last week. Of course, I’ve attended other tea parties. But the guests tended to have …
The Big Reveal!
Cover design for One Way Fare, Book I of the Null City series, coming September 1, 2013 from Taliesin Publishing. …
If Adam and Eve Sent Texts
Watching Die Hard, we noticed that if Bruce Willis had a cellphone, the movie would have been about ten minutes …
Thank You and World Peace
My Acceptance Speech:
First of all, I’d like to thank Jackie Dullea and, of course, Tina Fey for not writing humor blogs. I thank my parents, who (despite their attempts to hide it from my nine siblings) always liked me best.
Welcome to my bathroom
What if you’re away on vacation, and you come back to find that a whole bunch of people have been having a party at your house? I
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