This is a piece of Flash Fiction. The topic: A teenage girl gets a letter from George Mason University. Professor Bob Rosemary bounced through the door, simultaneously kicking off her vans and throwing her backpack against the couch. She didn’t notice that her giant chapstick fell out and rolled under the big, puffy chair […]
My Favorite President: A Note on The Pythagorean Theorem Many years ago I had a buddy named Mariah, she was a high school senior working part-time at a restaurant I used to hang out at. One day she approached me to tell me about a paper she needed to write for both her Government and […]
Bonus Eruptus! Let me begin by letting everyone know that I love The Simpsons. The show is now in year 31, and I still look forward to each week’s episode. I will admit that a few years in the middle of the run were pretty lean, but the show is experiencing a renaissance. The Simpsons […]
Where is my Dollar? This is an essay about counting. Simple counting, you know, like the kind that the puppet vampire on Sesame Street does. You remember “The Count,” right? One, Two, Three, Four, blah, blah, blah, blah. I just did a little research, and I discovered his full name is Count Von Count. Who […]
Negative One Twelfth There is a perfect epigraph for this essay, but I advise you not to use it. It is too on point. If you think about it, I am sure you can come up with something. Buford Lister (personal communication) I have been reminiscing about my time at Harvard University. I admit that […]
1 = .999… Q. How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. .999… One of my hobbies is Number Theory. I have a bunch of DVD courses on the topic as well as quite a few books. Consequently, I have always had a secret ambition to write an entire essay […]
A Pitcher in Zipper Boots I had an uncle named Dallas. This post is about him and a couple things he did during his life, random and unusual things I will never forget. Dallas used to wear a leather band on his watch, an extraordinarily thick one. The watch was always worn with the dial […]
The Notorious MFT: The Checkered Story of the GOAT of GOATS On April 3, 1995, the human race lost the GOAT of GOATS, a stone-cold assassin, a man whom Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky can only admire from down the road. As for Wolfgang Mozart and Isaac Newton, let’s just say that the three of […]
Phil’s Slight Oversight Phil was pacing back and forth in his sparse, tiny cell. His mind was racing: man, man, man, man, man…what has happened to me? How did I let it come to this? I don’t belong here, this isn’t right at all. “Guard, guard! You have to let me out of here. This […]
Nickels I am a big fan of McDonald’s restaurant. I really like their hamburgers, I will take theirs over those of lots of different chains. Currently, a burger is $1, quite the bargain. You can also get any size beverage for $1, my go-to is the large Diet Coke. Lots of days, I drive through […]