Tag: writing
member name: Greg Schiller
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December 14, 2009 07:18 PM EST --
Raise your hand if you have ever changed a flat tire.
Okay, put your hands down.
Now, who has waged that battle with the emergency equipment found in the typical trunk?
Okay, you can stop . . .
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July 21, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Sorry, I am late and lean with today's update. I just got off a conference call with Gather Central, where I had a sneak peek at the new format you will see tomorrow. I . . .
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October 25, 2006 05:20 PM EDT --
A short snippet from a work in process:
An August sun rose reluctantly through a blue haze well to the north of east above Nina Street. Sleep clung heavily to all living things as un-living . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
Obviously the Humor Gang has recovered from the long July 4th weekend. (For those living at latitudes and longitudes not tormented by American electoral politics, there is less of an excuse, for instance . . .
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July 14, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
The happiest man in the world is a pink little guy I used to care for at the Faribault State Hospital in Minnesota. "The Colonel" was born with severe Down's Syndrome, yet he enjoyed . . .
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July 02, 2007 05:30 PM EDT --
Reposted for Good Humor Monday
Trapped in the kitchen of a run down relative's house, I daydreamed myself free. They were my ex's family, hockey people; the kind of dullards who . . .
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February 03, 2007 09:05 AM EST --
I woke this morning to the crackle of a window frame; outside, it is -15F. The cold compresses the windows in its grip. I scramble out of bed, pull on some sweats and shiver until my body heat reflects . . .
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December 14, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
The forecast says, "cold with snow", it's the sort of . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
After four hours of touring the flat expanses of Eastern North Dakota, I told my buddy I'd seen empty parking lots with more scenery.
At least parking lots have interesting stuff like white . . .
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October 22, 2006 11:35 AM EDT --
Morning is feeding time for traffic in Australia. With the fresh light of a rising sun behind them, vehicles in downtown Sydney prowl for pedestrians. One rarely sees the old, the young or the weak . . .
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November 06, 2007 07:29 PM EST --
Last Saturday, a Chevy Tahoe named “Boss” scored a $2 million prize by winning the DARPA “urban challenge”. Pretty good for a car without a driver.
The DARPA . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:16 AM EDT --
Critique Welcome
A short story told in dialogue:
I need to be with her when she is put down.
Of course, but let me warn you that death does not always come peacefully . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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April 28, 2008 08:24 AM EDT --
There was a time when almost everyone in Minnesota lived in a tent. The equipment in those days was pretty basic stuff: buffalo hide shelter, wicker backpacks, wooden utensils and maybe a clay vessel . . .
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February 27, 2007 04:00 PM EST --
Most nights, they slept on silk over stone. Silk spoke of power and affluence; the stone, a reminder of the hard ground they would sleep on when fate tore these things away. They did this to honor tradition, . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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December 09, 2006 07:50 PM EST --
Albert could not remember much before today, and all he remembered of today was the explosion and violence of a college kid kicking open his door and roughing him into the hall. All of Albert’s stuff . . .
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January 30, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
Freedom from Oil author David Sandalow.
In the summer of 2006, Brookings scholar and former assistant Secretary of State, David Sandalow had lunch with Newt Gingrich. A short time later, . . .
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