How to pray

I know someone who teaches a class where a recent assignment was this: write out directions for a specific activity of the student’s choice. The following is a verbatim response, and if these directions are accurate, they help explain why my childhood prayers...

We’re not talking about the cat’s pajamas

Some of you may have seen this recipe on the Internet, but how many have actually plunked down the cash to create this work of art? Not many, I’m guessing. So now I’m going to reveal to the few who are interested how to make a kick-ass novelty dessert for...

Help…I can’t reach that knife in my back

Writers always want to know what other people think about their work. Many tie their very self-esteem to these opinions and no matter what they might say to you, they do not want to know what you really think. They want to hear how much you enjoyed it, how it...

Big Bang, Baby

I wake up early, before 6, to catch the train at 7. There is no sky, only an atmosphere of mist that seems to thicken the farther up you look, and the occasional sprinkle of rain. In the first class car I find an open seat with a table, ignore the paperback novel...