Let's be honest: Work conferences are like candy stores for awkward business men.
Tag: humor
LaRhonda provides lawn care
Last year, on one of my parents' visits to Nashville, my mom helped me plant some landscaping in my front yard. Among the plants we picked out was a pair of pretty little snow bell bushes, with bright green leaves and tiny white flowers. One of the bushes struggled to grow last year, so I was…
An open letter to my eyebrows, which won’t grow
Dear eyebrows, why won't you grow? It's really such a trend, you know Bushy glory 'cross my brow I wish someone would tell me how To go back to that fateful day When my mother said you'd go away If I kept plucking like I did It's not fair - I was just a kid!…
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You can keep the pen
I walked across the floor to my CEO's office, with whom I had a meeting scheduled. Notebook and pen in hand, I was prepared for our conversation. As I entered his office, I was greeted by his assistant, Elizabeth. "He just stepped out of the office," Elizabeth told me of my boss, "but he'll be back in…
Separate laundry?
It's difficult to describe the precise shock and sheer panic one feels after finding a strand of her husband's long, long beard hair stuck to her shirt in the middle of a work day or party. So many questions flood the mind: Has anyone seen it? How many people? Do they know what it is? Do…
Call me granny
It was one of those early Michigan spring days when the world had just begun to defrost and come back to life. I was in college, heading home from class. The sun was shining and the flowers were blooming, so I decided to take the long way home to walk through the campus gardens. The…
Top 9 Reasons Why My Upstairs Neighbor is a Vampire or Witch
Bryan and I have lived in our East Nashville house for a little over four months. It's a duplex; we live downstairs, and there's an apartment upstairs. When we moved in, we met the man who lived upstairs, "Nathan," who was friendly enough, albeit quiet. But after we lived in our house for about a month, Nathan disappeared.…
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