The Complete and Total Loser

  I do the Spelling Bee in the New York Times every day and hardly a day goes by that I don't learn a new word from it. This is remarkab...

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 My first being Jimmy Carter. I was a senior in high school and eighteen. All these years later, eighteen seems almost too young to be allow...

 It seems that my incidents of phantom pain are getting more intense, lasting longer, and happening more frequently. It's a horrible kin...

 My home state is actually a commonwealth, but if you call it a state, only dorks like me will point that out. You'd think that living i...

 They probably spent millions of dollars on labor and computing power to change this:     To this: I don't know about you, but the suspe...

 Of the books I’ve read so far this year, I find myself thinking more about one passage more than any others. It’s from a non-fiction book, ...

  I've been seeing a married woman I met online a few hours a week for the past two months. We meet at a third location for about an hou...

  Here's how: Drive less.  Americans these days see driving someplace at least once a day whether they need to or not as a fundamental r...

  I have two friends who have never met each other that I haven't heard from yet this year. I suspect the reasons are bad ones having no...

  This is the eighth time in my life that the date has been a striking one, by some criteria. The first was 6/6/66. I was eight years old th...

 My 1998 Toyota Camry was in the shop for three days this week having its front bumper replaced due to having been hit in a parking lot by a...

  Today is my mother's birthday. She died ten a little over years ago at age 80.  Although I never considered myself a mama's boy, f...

 The shows marking the coming new year last night aimed at a demographic much different from my own, so I wandered the dial with my TV remot...

  While in Cape May, New Jersey, last month, my first time at a beach in decades, I noticed that the shells that appealed to me weren't ...