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The weight was coming off. Slowwwwwwly. I had kicked off my diet on Inauguration Day and, armed with my magic pickles and

I have mixed feelings about the way the Scrabble app uses my name. I don’t particularly enjoy being referred to as a toilet. On the other hand, I got a helluva lotta points out of that “J” on a triple…

All my life, I had been laboring for free. Like a schmuck, like a sucker. Like a fool. No more, baby! Now when

An Account of the Journey of Explorer John K to the lands of Wysconsin, in the Year of our Lord 2024, from his Journals June 13, 9 a.m.By the grace of our divine Protector, today I embark on a solitary…

Our son very nearly had a surpise “party favor” at our backyard celebration of his 5th birthday: a handgun that a criminal stashed in our yard an hour before our little guests were to arrive. We were readying our house…

I was fat. After years of denial, qualifying for early COVID vaccination as "obese" had shocked me awake: I wasn't husky or hefty, I was a gelatinous tub of lard. I needed to go on a diet.

I wasn’t fat. Tall men don’t get fat, no matter how much weight we gain. We’re husky, bulky, beefy. “A mountain of a man” is a phrase applied

Regardless of our political divides, I think we all agree that after the 2024 presidential election we’ll be facing Constitutional, logistical, and other problems if we have a convicted felon as president. I humbly offer this drawing as a potential…

A million years ago, I was married to someone else. Fortunately, we were married and divorced before the Internet, so Google today finds no evidence connecting the two of us. Which is great, because I’ve got a story to tell…