Stories of Suspense with a Sense of Humor
Thursday evenings are trash night for me, meaning that I have to gather up trash from around the house and put the trash dumpster out on the curb. Trash is picked up on Friday mornings, and they claim the right to pickup starting at seven a.m., and you don’t want to miss it. In the … Read more
The theory of circadian rhythms is that we have an observable pattern of behaviors we experience each day, the two most obvious of which are being awake and being asleep; being sleepy during your wakefulness is part of that, but not as obvious. There are also rhythms to our sleep: we go through, or attempt … Read more
I’m about to go running, which has been an important time for me to think about me things. I’m out of the house for twenty to thirty minutes, listening to music to which I want to listen, and I distract my conscious brain with the activity of running. This frees up other parts of my … Read more
I was in a colleague’s office and saw two things that gave me reason to pause and think. The first was a sign on his credenza that read “You probably wanted to do something cool with your life, but you never got that job.” The sign made me sad, well not sad as much as … Read more